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Top 10 hospitals by number of patient discharges
A hospital discharge occurs when a patient leaves a hospital after treatment. A hospital can discharge a patient if a doctor determines that they no longer need inpatient care and can go home, or if the patient needs to be transferred to a different facility.
Using Definitive Healthcare’s HospitalView product, we created a list of the U.S. hospitals with the highest number of patient discharges. The following data is displayed and ranked according to the most recent 12-month interval tracked in our database.
| Rank | Definitive ID | Hospital name | City | State | # of discharges | Explore dataset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 873 | AdventHealth Orlando (FKA Florida Hospital Orlando) | Orlando | FL | 167,558 | Explore |
| 2 | 2368 | Mercy Hospital Springfield (FKA St Johns Hospital) | Springfield | MO | 145,688 | Explore |
| 3 | 541974 | NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center | New York | NY | 139,188 | Explore |
| 4 | 1946 | Mount Auburn Hospital | Cambridge | MA | 117,776 | Explore |
| 5 | 2843 | Tisch Hospital | New York | NY | 114,518 | Explore |
| 6 | 872 | Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center | Orlando | FL | 114,137 | Explore |
| 7 | 3862 | Methodist Hospital | San Antonio | TX | 110,498 | Explore |
| 8 | 1118 | UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital | Harvey | IL | 93,444 | Explore |
| 9 | 1678 | Norton Hospital | Louisville | KY | 79,388 | Explore |
| 10 | 274147 | Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital | Houston | TX | 78,729 | Explore |
Fig. 1 Data is from Definitive Healthcare’s HospitalView product. Data is from the Medicare Cost Report and displayed according to the most recent 12-month interval tracked in our database. Data accessed October 2026.
Which hospitals have the most discharges?
Located in Orlando Florida, AdventHealth Orlando ranks first on our list, having discharged more than 167,500 patients—according to the most recent 12-month interval that we measured. The facility is also one of the largest hospitals by number of staffed beds.
The hospital with the second highest number of discharges is Mercy Hospital Springfield, located in Missouri. This facility saw 145,688 discharges in our analysis.
The third-place hospital is New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, located in New York City. This facility saw 139,188 discharges in our analysis.
Why are discharge levels important to a hospital?
Hospital discharges are a metric that indicates the volume of patients that that hospital sees on an annual basis. This metric can be used to compare the number of beds, size, and total costs to better understand staffing, clinical workload, and financial issues on a day-to-day basis.
Read our analysis on U.S. hospital discharge data by state for more information.
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