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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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