The data illustrates a ranking of the top U.S. for-profit hospital operators based on number of hospitals as of December 2017. At this point, the Hospital Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tennessee, was ranked first in the U.S., with a total of 174 hospitals.
Hospitals in the U.S.
Currently, there are approx. 5,500 hospitals in the U.S. Looking over the past decades, this figure was constantly decreasing. For example, there were nearly 7,000 hospitals in 1980. There are some 5.3 million persons employed in U.
