Becker's Healthcare September 25, 2024
While some large health systems continue to expand, the typical U.S. health system remains modest in size.
The median health system has two hospitals, 550 beds, 17,500 annual discharges and $700 million in net patient revenue, according to a snapshot from Kaufman Hall, which analyzed 2022 data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to arrive at the averages.
Kaufman Hall is the group behind monthly “National Hospital Flash Report,” which pins down hospitals’ median operating margins by month along with other operational benchmarks based on data from more than 1,300...