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    Fast Facts

    Care provided by Catholic hospitals

      Community Catholic % Catholic
    Hospitals 4,985 629*
    12.6%
    Beds 804,943 120,311
    14.9%
    Admissions 35,149,427 5,512,632
    15.6%
    Inpatient days 189,593,349 28,298,787
    14.9%
    Outpatient days 651,423,717 100,032,817
    15.4%
    Expenses $677.9 billion $98.6 billion
    14.5%
    Full-time equivalent staff 4,599,752 640,894
    13.9%
    Medicare discharges 14,992,150 2,486,769
    16.6%
    Medicaid discharges 7,157,387 976,802
    13.6%

     

    Note: Community hospitals are defined as all nonfederal, 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 nonfederal, short-term hospitals. Excluded are hospitals not accessible by the general public, such as prison hospitals or college infirmaries.
     
    Source: 2010 American Hospital Association Annual Survey
     
      * The 2010 American Hospital Association (AHA) 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 2010 annual survey included data for 585 Catholic community hospitals of 629 in the United States.

    Additional information can be found in "Catholic Health Care Statistics — 2012."

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