List of public hospitals in the United States

This is a list of public hospitals in the United States.

Currently operating

Arizona

• Valleywise Health (formerly Maricopa Integrated Health System)
  • Valleywise Health Medical Center (Phoenix)

California

• Alameda Health System
  • Highland Hospital
• Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
  • Los Angeles General Medical Center (Los Angeles)
  • Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
  • Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
• San Francisco Department of Public Health
  • San Francisco General Hospital
• Santa Clara County Health System
  • Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Colorado

• Denver Health

Connecticut

• UConn Health (John Dempsey Hospital)🏥

Florida

• Jackson Memorial Hospital (operated by Miami-Dade County) (Miami)
• Broward Health
• UF Health Shands (Gainesville)
• Lee Health (Fort Myers)

Georgia

• Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta)

Illinois

• John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County (Chicago)
• Provident Hospital (Chicago)

Indiana

• Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital (Indianapolis) ^[1]

Minnesota

• Hennepin County Medical Center

Mississippi

• Greenwood Leflore Hospital - Jointly owned by the City of Greenwood and Leflore County ^[2]

New Jersey

• University Hospital - Newark

New York

• NYC Health + Hospitals
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull

North Carolina

• Atrium Health (Mecklenburg County)
  • Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte)

Oregon

• Harney District Hospital (Burns) ^[3]
• Lake District Hospital

Tennessee

• West Tennessee Healthcare (Jackson-Madison County General Hospital District) ^[4]

Texas

• Brooke Army Medical Center
• Harris Health (Harris County)
  • Ben Taub Hospital (Houston)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital (Houston) ^[5]
• JPS Health Network (Tarrant County)
  • John Peter Smith Hospital (Fort Worth)
• Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas County)
  • Parkland Memorial Hospital (Dallas)
• University Health System (Bexar County)
  • University Hospital

Virginia

• University of Virginia Health System
  • UVA Children's Hospital
• VCU Medical Center

Former hospitals

• Boston City Hospital
• Brackenridge Hospital (Austin, Texas)
• Detroit General Hospital (privatized, now Detroit Receiving Hospital) ^[6]
• District of Columbia General Hospital
• Greenville General Hospital (of the Greenville Health Authority), owned by the city of Greenville, SC. ^[7] It continues to own the hospital facility but leases management to Prisma Health, ^[8] which operates it as Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital.
• Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center (Los Angeles County, California)
• New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington, North Carolina) - Formerly operated by New Hanover County. ^[9] In February 2021 Novant Health, a nonprofit private organization, acquired the hospital. ^[10] Due to the acquisition it is no longer a public hospital. ^[11]
• Tampa General Hospital (formerly Tampa Municipal Hospital) - Became a private hospital circa 1997 ^[12]

See also

• Central Health - Hospital district of Travis County, Texas

References

1. Mandusic McDonell, Katherine; Fischer, Jessica Erin (2021) [1994]. "Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital". Digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Indianapolis Public Library. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
2. Stribling, Will (September 1, 2022). "Greenwood Leflore Hospital announces clinic closures, layoffs after UMMC submits bid to lease hospital". Mississippi Today . Retrieved September 9, 2022.
3. Presuch, Matthew (May 29, 2005). "Doctor does house calls for entire Oregon towns". Statesman Journal . Associated Press. p.  10C – via Newspapers.com.
4. "About Us". West Tennessee Healthcare. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
5. "Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital". Harris Health . Retrieved November 20, 2021.
6. Gage, Larry S. (October 17, 2002). "Why Do Public Teaching Hospitals Privatize?". In Bloche, M. Gregg (ed.). The Privatization of Health Care Reform: Legal and Regulatory Perspectives. Oxford University Press. pp.  158-. ISBN   9780199770021. - Cited: p. 181
7. "Home". Greenville Health Authority. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
8. Navarro, Marcus (April 21, 2021). "Greenville lawmakers want a more "proactive" Health Authority". Greenville News . Retrieved October 7, 2021.
9. "Annual Financial Report New Hanover Regional Medical Center Wilmington, North Carolina (A Component Unit of New Hanover County, North Carolina) Years Ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 With Report of Independent Auditor" (PDF). New Hanover Regional Medical Center . Retrieved November 19, 2021.
10. Paavola, Alia (February 1, 2021). "Novant buys North Carolina health system". Beckers Hospital Review . Retrieved November 19, 2021.
11. Rau, Jordan (January 28, 2021). "In the midst of the pandemic, a public hospital is gobbled up". Fortune Magazine . Retrieved November 19, 2021.
12. "TGH History". Tampa General Hospital . Retrieved November 25, 2021.