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    Fast Facts

    Care provided by Catholic hospitals
    Selected statistics (for Catholic and all community hospitals)

    Catholic health care facilities are a vital part of their communities, providing a significant percentage of health care services.

      Total
    community     		Catholic Percent
    Catholic
    Hospitals 5,010 620*
    12.4%
    Beds 808,069 122,475
    15.0%
    Admissions 35,760,750 5,647,565
    15.8%
    Inpatient days 196,078,468 29,615,715
    15.1%
    Outpatient days 624,098,296 98,091,916
    15.7%
    Expenses $626.6 billion $91.76 billion
    14.6%
    Full-time equivalent staff 4,549,560 649,336
    14.3%
    Medicare discharges 14,912,904 2,485,715
    16.7%
    Medicaid discharges 6,870,817 916,020
    13.3%

     

    Note: Community hospitals are defined as all non-federal, short-term, general and other specific hospitals. Other specialty hospitals include obstetrics and gynecology; eye, ear, nose and throat; rehabilitation; orthopedic; and other individual described specialty services. Community hospitals include academic medical centers or other teaching hospitals if they are non-federal, short-term hospitals. Excluded are hospitals not accessible by the general public, such as prison hospitals or college infirmaries.
     
    Source: 2008 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey
     
      * The 2008 American Hospital Association Annual Survey has been used for the majority of statistic references in this chart. These references do not reflect information for all community or all Catholic hospitals in the United States but only those that reported through the AHA annual survey process. The 2008 annual survey included data for 610 Catholic community hospitals of 620 in the United States.

    Additional information can be found in "Catholic Health Care in the United States, January 2010."

    Specific Catholic health care organizations can be found by using the directory.