Healthcare Insights
What are the largest U.S. hospitals by bed count?
In our HospitalView product, we track more than 9,000 hospitals and integrated delivery networks (IDNs). HospitalView offers access to comprehensive facility profiles including information on staffed beds, bed utilization rate, average length of stay, common procedures, and more.
These types of healthcare market datapoints help Definitive Healthcare clients identify the right facilities to target, as well as better segment and market to their key hospital accounts.
In this Healthcare Insight, we compiled the following list of U.S. hospitals with the most beds. We used the total number of staffed beds metric to determine the biggest hospitals. The results in this analysis are sourced from the Medicare Cost Report and represent data from the most recent 12-month interval tracked in our database.
| Rank | Definitive ID | Hospital name | Location | # of staffed beds | Explore dataset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 873 | AdventHealth Orlando (FKA Florida Hospital Orlando) | Orlando, FL | 2,863 | Explore |
| 2 | 541974 | New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center | New York, NY | 2,850 | Explore |
| 3 | 3862 | Methodist Hospital | San Antonio, TX | 1,863 | Explore |
| 4 | 2843 | Tisch Hospital | New York, NY | 1,663 | Explore |
| 5 | 845 | Jackson Memorial Hospital | Miami, FL | 1,567 | Explore |
| 6 | 872 | Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center | Orlando, FL | 1,544 | Explore |
| 7 | 1678 | Norton Hospital | Louisville, KY | 1,541 | Explore |
| 8 | 273024 | Montefiore Hospital - Moses Campus | Bronx, NY | 1,450 | Explore |
| 9 | 274147 | Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital | Houston, TX | 1,433 | Explore |
| 10 | 731 | Yale New Haven Hospital | New Haven, CT | 1,402 | Explore |
| 11 | 3818 | Methodist University Hospital | Memphis, TN | 1,368 | Explore |
| 12 | 814 | BayCare St Josephs Hospital | Tampa, FL | 1,345 | Explore |
| 13 | 3120 | Cleveland Clinic Main Campus | Cleveland, OH | 1,318 | Explore |
| 14 | 2442 | Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Saint Louis, MO | 1,279 | Explore |
| 15 | 1365 | IU Health Methodist Hospital | Indianapolis, IN | 1,276 | Explore |
| 16 | 2973 | Duke University Hospital | Durham, NC | 1,266 | Explore |
| 17 | 3003 | Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center | Charlotte, NC | 1,243 | Explore |
| 18 | 744 | Christiana Hospital | Newark, DE | 1,241 | Explore |
| 19 | 3525 | Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest | Allentown, PA | 1,236 | Explore |
| 20 | 71 | UAB Hospital | Birmingham, AL | 1,170 | Explore |
Fig. 1 Data is from the Definitive Healthcare HospitalView product and sourced from the most recently available Medicare Cost Report. Accessed August 2026.
What is the largest hospital in the U.S. by beds?
According to our data, AdventHealth Orlando is the largest hospital in the U.S. by bed count, with 2,863 beds. This facility also ranks highly on our list of the top hospitals by net patient revenue. It is owned by the IDN AdventHealth, one of the largest health systems in the U.S.
AdventHealth Orlando has a bed utilization rate of about 81%. Bed utilization measures the percentage of beds or units that are occupied on an average night over a given period. It can also be an indicator of how effectively a hospital manages its resources and provides care to patients. Patients at AdventHealth Orlando have an average length of stay of about five days.
New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center comes in second place on our list with 2,850 staffed beds. In third place is Methodist Hospital, located in San Antonio, TX. The facility has 1,863 staffed beds.
What are the largest health systems by number of beds?
According to Definitive Healthcare data, the following five U.S. health systems have the most staffed beds across their network:
- HCA Healthcare – 41,215
- Department of Veterans Affairs – 25,260
- Universal Health Services – 21,419
- CommonSpirit Health – 18,980
- Kaiser Permanente – 13,098
Read our Healthcare Insight on the top healthcare systems by hospital beds to see the full list.
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