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Fast Facts
CALIFORNIA’S ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HOSPITALS
California ’s 19 public hospitals make up the core of the state’s medical safety net – delivering care to all who need it, regardless of ability to pay, immigration status or insurance.
Though just 6% of all California hospitals statewide, public hospitals:
- Provide nearly 45% of all hospital care to the state’s 6.5 million uninsured
- Operate almost 60% of the top-level trauma and burn centers
- Are teaching hospitals, training 45% of the doctors in the state
- Provide more than 60% of the state’s psychiatric emergency care
- Deliver 11 million outpatient visits per year
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CAPH members:
- constitute 10.5% of the state's
hospital beds
- train 45% of all medical residents
in the state
- provide 43% of the state's
burn care
- provide 57% of the state's
level I trauma centers
- deliver 87% of the state's
outpatient care to the medically indigent
- handle 32% of the state's Medi-Cal
neo-natal intensive care
- deliver 29% of the state's
inpatient care to the Medi-Cal population
- provide 38% of the state's
outpatient care to the Medi-Cal population
- provide 11 million outpatient clinic
visits annually
- serve a patient population that is 70%
non-white
- provide more than half of all outpatient
care delivered by hospitals to the uninsured
- deliver 74% of the state's
inpatient care to the medically indigent
- provide 63% of the state's
psychiatric emergency care
- are located in counties containing 81%
of all Californians
Source: Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
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