Patients by the numbers

• We receive about 9.8 million outpatient visits and 593,000 inpatient visits a year.
• The average inpatient stay lasts 4.17 days.¹
• The average number of inpatient days per capita is 0.41.²
• We see 1.7 million patients in our emergency departments each year.
• 403,000 same-day surgeries are performed, and there are about 7.7 million visits for a variety of other hospital-based treatments or procedures, from kidney dialysis to follow-up X rays.
• The top reasons for inpatient stays relate to births, mental health, orthopedic procedures, and digestive disorders.

Providing needed access

• All of Minnesota hospitals' emergency rooms treat anyone who enters, regardless of ability to pay. There are 127 24-hour emergency rooms in the state.
• There are 79 rural hospitals in Minnesota with the federal Critical Access Hospital designation, which means they receive cost-based federal payments to preserve access to care in rural areas: see list of hospitals.
• Minnesota has one of the lowest percentage of uninsured adults in the nation, at 9 percent.⁴

Our impact on the economy

• We directly employ 113,374 people. With another 100,734 jobs tied to Minnesota hospitals, we contribute 214,108 jobs or 8.3 percent of the total state work force.⁵
• In 2009, hospitals spent $11.2 billion in wages and salaries. With $15.2 billion in value-added contributions, the total economic contribution of hospitals to the state is $27.2 billion.⁵ See flyers detailing hospitals' economic impact: [PDF]; [PDF]
  

Our financing

• State and federal government programs account for about 53 percent of hospital patient charges.¹
• Hospitals are consistently being reimbursed below the cost of care. That means, in effect, the government is shifting the costs of caring for people to commercial insurers.
• About 24 percent of hospitals operated in the red in 2009.¹ 55 percent had a margin under 5 percent,¹ which is the minimum amount experts say hospitals need to be able to make needed investments in technology, buildings and staff.

Hospitals by the numbers

• Minnesota has 148 hospitals in the state - 145 of which are members of MHA. The three hospitals that are not members of MHA include two Indian Health Services hospitals and a sole proprietary hospital.³
• 46 hospitals are publicly owned by a city, county, district, state, or federal jurisdiction.³
• The hospital with the largest number of staffed beds in the state is Mayo Clinic, Rochester - which includes Rochester Methodist Hospital and Saint Marys and Mayo Psychiatric Hospitals with 2,059 staffed, licensed beds.¹
• The system with the greatest number of hospitals is the Mayo Clinic, with 11 hospitals and 2,659 beds.¹
• Minnesota's oldest hospital is St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul and its youngest hospitals are Maple Grove Hospital and PrairieCare, both located in Maple Grove.³

¹Source: Health Care Cost Information System (HCCIS)
²Source: UB-92 Administrative Data
³Source: MHA Membership Database
⁴Source: Kaiser State Health Facts
⁵Source: Positively Minnesota - Minnesota Dept. of Employment and Economic Development