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Illinois Hospitals At a Glance

Illinois' community hospitals range from nationally-known academic medical centers and teaching hospitals that offer highly specialized care, train tomorrow's doctors and nurses, and conduct medical research, to inner-city, urban and suburban community hospitals that transform medical and technological advances into better lives for their patients, to small and rural facilities and Critical Access Hospitals that bring high-quality care to the less populated regions of our state and are vital to the health and well-being of their communities. Every year, our state's 192 community hospitals:

  • Admit 1.6 million inpatients.
  • Treat almost 84,153 outpatients every day -- more than three times the number of patients staying in Illinois hospitals on any given day.
  • Treat 5.1 million patients in their emergency departments.
  • Perform more than 1.1 million surgical procedures, more than 64% of them on an outpatient basis.
  • Welcome more than 174,000 new babies into the world.
  • Provide $1.5 billion in uncompensated care - essential health care services for people who have no insurance or are underinsured and are unable to pay for their care.
  • Provide meaningful job opportunities for 236,213 workers and pay them more than $13.7 billion in wages and benefits. Hospitals are the largest employer in many communities, and among the top 3 employers in 48 of the State's 102 counties. The total economic impact of Illinois hospitals is almost $72 billion a year.
  • Provide community service opportunities to more than 90,000 volunteers, who donate almost $14 million annually to Illinois hospitals.
  • Provide health care services on behalf of government payers (primarily Medicare and Medicaid) that account for 54% of hospitals' patient revenue. Medicare accounts for 40% of the patient revenue Illinois hospitals receive, while Medicaid accounts for another 14%.

Based on 2007 data.

Sources:

  • American Hospital Association/Health Forum Annual Survey of Hospitals, 2007-2008
  • Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, 2002
  • "Beyond Health Care: The Economic Contribution of Hospitals," American Hospital Association, Jan. 2009

4/19/10