Illinois Hospitals At a Glance
Illinois community hospitals range from the teaching hospitals that train tomorrow's doctors and nurses, to community hospitals that transform advances in medicine and technology into better lives for patients, to rural facilities that bring high-quality patient care to the less populated regions of our state. In 2005, our State's 197 community hospitals:
- Admitted 1.6 million inpatients.
- Treated 79,300 outpatients every day -- more than three times the number of patients staying in
the hospital on any given day.
- Treated 4.9 million patients in their emergency departments.
- Performed more than one million surgical procedures, more than half of them on an outpatient basis.
- Welcomed more than 171,000 new babies into the world.
- Provided $1.2 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.
- Provided meaningful job opportunities for approximately 235,300 workers and paid them more than $12 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 more than $61.5 billion a year.
- Provided community service opportunities to 75,000 volunteers, who donate almost $15 million annually to Illinois hospitals.
- Provided health care services on behalf of government payers (primarily Medicare and Medicaid) that accounted for more than half of hospitals' patient revenue. Medicare accounts for 41 percent of the patient revenue Illinois hospitals receive, while Medicaid accounts for another 14 percent.
(Source: American Hospital Association Annual Survey, 2005)
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