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Acute care hospitals

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services lists 3,115 acute care hospitals across 56 states and territories. 2,670 of them carry a CMS Overall Star Rating (85.7%), and 290 hold five stars. 2,838 report an emergency department.

General hospitals treating short-term conditions, surgery and emergencies. This is the population the CMS Overall Star Rating was built for, and most rated hospitals are here.

Data as of , from CMS Hospital Compare.

Hospitals
3,115
With a star rating
2,670
With an ER
2,838
States covered
56

Where acute care hospitals are concentrated

The twelve states with the most, by count

hospitals

What this shows TX has the most with 285. Counts follow population and, for rural categories, geography rather than quality.

Source CMS Hospital Compare As of August 2026

Acute care hospitals by state

State Hospitals With a star rating With an ER
TX 285 200 270
CA 277 258 225
FL 167 160 159
PA 132 117 120
NY 129 122 123
OH 118 109 97
IL 114 106 111
GA 96 80 66
MI 90 82 79
IN 82 73 75
LA 82 56 65
NC 80 75 77
TN 78 66 75
OK 76 55 73
AL 75 57 75
VA 72 68 68
AZ 65 49 54
WI 65 59 62
MO 63 61 63
NJ 61 60 55
KY 59 58 59
MS 59 46 50
MA 55 50 53
PR 54 6 53
CO 51 42 49
SC 51 47 48
MN 46 44 40
WA 46 44 46
KS 44 33 33
AR 43 35 43
MD 43 41 38
UT 33 27 32
OR 32 29 31
IA 30 29 30
CT 26 25 25
NM 26 19 24
NE 25 20 21
WV 25 21 23
NV 22 18 21
SD 17 11 13
ID 16 12 13
ME 13 13 13
NH 13 13 12
HI 11 11 10
MT 11 10 11
RI 10 10 10
AK 8 8 8
WY 8 7 7
ND 7 7 7
DC 6 6 5
DE 6 6 6
VT 6 6 6
GU 2 1 2
VI 2 2 2
AS 1 0 1
MP 1 0 1

State links open the full hospital directory for that state, across every facility type.

Highest-rated acute care hospitals

Hospital Location CMS rating
ADVENTHEALTH CASTLE ROCK CASTLE ROCK, CO 5 of 5
ADVENTHEALTH DAYTONA BEACH DAYTONA BEACH, FL 5 of 5
ADVENTHEALTH FISH MEMORIAL ORANGE CITY, FL 5 of 5
ADVENTHEALTH HENDERSONVILLE HENDERSONVILLE, NC 5 of 5
ADVENTHEALTH MURRAY CHATSWORTH, GA 5 of 5
AdventHealth Palm Coast PALM COAST, FL 5 of 5
AdventHealth Parker PARKER, CO 5 of 5
ADVENTHEALTH WESLEY CHAPEL WESLEY CHAPEL, FL 5 of 5
ADVOCATE GOOD SHEPHERD HOSPITAL BARRINGTON, IL 5 of 5
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD, PA 5 of 5

Ties are broken alphabetically, not by any further ranking of our own.

Who runs them

Ownership Hospitals
Voluntary non-profit - Private 1,495
Proprietary 648
Voluntary non-profit - Other 248
Government - Hospital District or Authority 224
Voluntary non-profit - Church 204
Government - Local 139

Other categories: all hospital types · national figures on statistics · the underlying file is downloadable as CSV.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare / Care Compare, Hospital General Information · August 2026 Facility type, ownership and emergency-service flags are published by CMS per hospital. Counts are computed by PlainHospital from those records.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Counts are live queries over the CMS facility-type field, never a hand-maintained list. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.