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public hospital A public hospital, or government hospital, is a hospital which is government owned and is fully funded by the government and operates solely off the money that is collected from taxpayers to fund healthcare initiatives. In some countries, this typ ...

s in the United States.

Currently operating

; Arizona *

Valleywise Health Valleywise Health (formerly Maricopa Integrated Health System) is a network of taxpayer-funded hospitals and medical facilities in Maricopa County, Arizona. History Maricopa Integrated Health System was founded in 1991 in Maricopa County, A ...

(formerly Maricopa Integrated Health System) ** Valleywise Health Medical Center (Phoenix) ; California *

Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (abbreviated DHS and LADHS) operates the public hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles County, and is the United States' second largest municipal health system, after NYC Health + Hospitals. DHS op ...

LAC+USC Medical Center Lac is the resinous secretion of a number of species of lac insects, of which the most commonly cultivated is '' Kerria lacca''. Cultivation begins when a farmer gets a stick that contains eggs ready to hatch and ties it to the tree to be infe ...

(Los Angeles) ** Harbor-UCLA Medical Center **

Olive View-UCLA Medical Center The olive, botanical name ''Olea europaea'', meaning 'European olive' in Latin, is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin. When in shrub form, it is known as ''Olea europaea'' 'M ...

* San Francisco Department of Public Health **

San Francisco General Hospital The Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) is a Public hospital in San Francisco, California, under the purview of the city's Department of Public Health. It serves as the only Level I Trauma Ce ...

; Florida *

Jackson Memorial Hospital Jackson Memorial Hospital (also known as "Jackson" or abbreviated "MJMH") is a non-profit, tertiary care hospital, the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami's School of Medicine, and the largest hospital in the United States with 1,5 ...

(operated by Miami-Dade County) (Miami) *

Broward Health Broward Health, formally the North Broward Hospital District, is one of the 10 largest public health systems in the U.S.(2007, June 11). 10 Largest Public Healthcare Systems. Modern Healthcare. p. 31 Located in Broward County, Florida, Broward Heal ...

; Georgia *

Grady Memorial Hospital Grady Memorial Hospital, frequently referred to as Grady Hospital or simply Grady, is the public hospital for the city of Atlanta. It is the tenth-largest public hospital in the United States, and one of the busiest Level I trauma centers in th ...

(Atlanta) ; Illinois *

John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County The John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County (formerly Cook County Hospital) is a public hospital in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Cook County Health and Hospital System, along with Provident Hospital of Cook County and ...

(Chicago) * Provident Hospital (Chicago) ; Indiana *

Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital The Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital is a public hospital located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The hospital is the flagship medical center for Eskenazi Health, founded in 1859 as Indiana's oldest public healthcare system. The hospital is operated by H ...

(Indianapolis) ; Minnesota *

Hennepin County Medical Center Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) is a Level I adult and pediatric trauma center and safety net hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the county seat of Hennepin County. The primary 484-bed facility is on six city blocks across the street from ...

; Mississippi *

Greenwood Leflore Hospital Green wood is unseasoned wood. Greenwood or Green wood may also refer to: People * Greenwood (surname) Settlements Australia * Greenwood, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region * Greenwood, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth ...

- Jointly owned by the City of Greenwood and Leflore County ; New York *

NYC Health + Hospitals NYC Health + Hospitals, officially the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City as a public benefit corporation. , HHC is the largest municipal healthcare system in the Uni ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Bellevue Hospital (officially NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and formerly known as Bellevue Hospital Center) is a hospital in New York City and the oldest public hospital in the United States. One of the largest hospitals in the United States b ...

** NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island ** NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst ** NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem **

NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Jacobi Medical Center (NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi) is a municipal hospital operated by NYC Health + Hospitals in affiliation with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The facility is located in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx, Ne ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County Kings County Hospital Center is a municipal hospital located in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It is owned and operated by NYC Health + Hospitals, a municipal agency that runs New York City's public hospitals. It has ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Lincoln Hospital is a full service medical center and teaching hospital affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College, in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, New York. The medical center is municipally owned by NYC Health + ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan Metropolitan Hospital Center (MHC, also referred to as Metropolitan Hospital) is a hospital in East Harlem, New York City. It has been affiliated with New York Medical College since it was founded in 1875, representing the oldest partnership be ...

** NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx **

NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens Queens Hospital Center (QHC), also known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens and originally called Queens General Hospital, is a large public hospital campus in the Jamaica Hills and Hillcrest neighborhoods of Queens in New York City. It is operat ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull Woodhull Medical Center, branded as NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, is a health care system located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Its focus is on preventing disease and promoting healthy lifestyles ...

; North Carolina *

Atrium Health Atrium Health, formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, is a hospital network with more than 70,000 employees and part of Advocate Aurora Health. It operates 40 hospitals, 7 freestanding emergency departments, over 30 urgent care centers, and more t ...

(Mecklenburg County) **

Carolinas Medical Center Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) is an 874-bed non-profit, Tertiary care, tertiary, research and Teaching hospital, academic medical center located in Charlotte, North Carolina, servicing the southern North Carolina, northern South Carolina, and t ...

(Charlotte) ; Tennessee *

West Tennessee Healthcare West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, German ...

(Jackson-Madison County General Hospital District) ; Texas *

Brooke Army Medical Center Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) is the United States Army's premier medical institution. Located on Fort Sam Houston, BAMC, a 425-bed Academic Medical Center, is the Department of Defense's largest facility and only Level 1 Trauma Center. BAMC ...

* Harris Health (Harris County) ** Ben Taub Hospital (Houston) **

Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital The Harris Health System, previously the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD), is a governmental entity with taxing authority that owns and operates three hospitals and numerous clinics throughout Harris County, Texas, United States, includin ...

(Houston) *

JPS Health Network The Tarrant County Hospital District (TCHD) does business as the JPS Health Network. It is the taxpayer-supported hospital district of Tarrant County, Texas. Its headquarters are in the John Peter Smith Hospital at 1500 South Main Street, Fort Wor ...

(Tarrant County) **

John Peter Smith Hospital John Peter Smith Hospital (also known as JPS Hospital) is a Level 1 Trauma Center, 573-bed county hospital located in Fort Worth, Texas that provides inpatient, outpatient and behavioral healthcare. About John Peter Smith Hospital is part of the ...

(Fort Worth) * Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas County) **

Parkland Memorial Hospital Parkland Memorial Hospital is a public hospital in Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the main hospital of the Parkland Health & Hospital System and serves as Dallas County's public hospital. It is located within the Southwestern Medical Dis ...

(Dallas) *

University Health System University Health is the public hospital district for the San Antonio, Texas, US metropolitan area. Owned and operated by Bexar County, it is the third largest public health system in Texas. The system operates University Hospital, a 716-bed teachi ...

(Bexar County) ** University Hospital

Former hospitals

Boston City Hospital The Boston City Hospital (1864–1996), in Boston, Massachusetts, was a public hospital, located in the South End. It was "intended for the use and comfort of poor patients, to whom medical care will be provided at the expense of the city, and . ...

* Brackenridge Hospital (Austin, Texas) * Detroit General Hospital (privatized, now

Detroit Receiving Hospital Detroit Receiving Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, is the state's first Level I Trauma Center. Receiving's emergency department treats more than 105,000 patients annually, and nearly 60% of Michigan's emergency physicians are trained at Receiving. ...

) * Greenville General Hospital (of the Greenville Health Authority), owned by the city of Greenville, SC. It continues to own the hospital facility but leases management to

Prisma Health Prisma Health is a not-for-profit health organization in South Carolina, formed by the merging of Palmetto Health and the Greenville Health System in November 2017. Its headquarters are on the property of Greenville Memorial Hospital in Gree ...

, which operates it as

Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital Greenville Memorial Hospital is an 814-bed tertiary referral hospital and academic center located at 701 Grove Road, Greenville, South Carolina. It serves as the regional referral center for the upstate area. It was formerly the flagship hosp ...

. * 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. In February 2021

Novant Health Novant Health is a four-state integrated network of physician clinics, outpatient centers and hospitals. Its network consists of more than 1,600 physicians and 29,000 employees at more than 640 locations, including 15 medical centers and hundre ...

, a nonprofit private organization, acquired the hospital. Due to the acquisition it is no longer a public hospital. *

Tampa General Hospital Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is a 1,041-bed non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located on Davis Island in Tampa, Florida, servicing western Florida and the greater Tampa Bay region. TGH is one of the region's only univers ...

(formerly Tampa Municipal Hospital) - Became a private hospital circa 1997

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