Updated October 2026

Acute care hospitals in California

Hospital directory
California
Acute care

Acute care hospitals: 279
Staffed beds: 51,561
Teaching hospitals: 118
Outpatient sites: 774
Affiliated HCPs: 119,840

There are 279 acute care hospitals in California, across 186 cities. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is the largest, with 913 staffed beds, followed by UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights with 887. Kaiser Permanente runs the most California acute care hospitals, 32.

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is the largest acute care hospital in California, with 913 beds

Ranked by staffed beds in each hospital's latest CMS cost report. UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights in San Francisco is second with 887 beds, and Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno is third with 783.

Largest acute care hospitals in California by staffed beds
#	Hospital	Health system	Staffed beds	HCPs
1	Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterLos Angeles	Cedars-Sinai Health System	913	3,136
2	UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus HeightsSan Francisco	University of California Health	887	4,556
3	Community Regional Medical CenterFresno	Community Health System	783	1,448
4	Fontana Medical CenterFontana	Kaiser Permanente	664	1,440
5	UC Davis Medical CenterSacramento	University of California Health	654	3,229
6	Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical CenterSan Diego	Kaiser Permanente	572	1,640
7	Los Angeles General Medical CenterLos Angeles	County of Los Angeles	545	1,797
8	Scripps Mercy Hospital San DiegoSan Diego	Scripps Health	545	1,058
9	Orange County - Anaheim Medical CenterAnaheim	Kaiser Permanente	531	775
10	Riverside Community HospitalRiverside	HCA Healthcare	531	630

Top 10 of 232 California acute care hospitals that report beds

Sources: Hospital Provider Cost Report (CMS) and Dmand AI Affiliation Data

There are 279 acute care hospitals in California, across 186 cities

A hospital that treats patients for a short stay after a sudden illness, injury or surgery, usually with an emergency department. California has 279, A to Z below. Open a profile for beds, affiliated HCPs, the org hierarchy and the leadership team.

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California acute care hospitals, A to Z
Hospital	Health system	Beds	HCPs	Contacts
Adventist Health and RideoutMarysville	Adventist Health	209	609	Contacts
Adventist Health BakersfieldBakersfield	Adventist Health	300	854	Contacts
Adventist Health DelanoDelano	Adventist Health	97	231	Contacts
Adventist Health GlendaleGlendale	Adventist Health	313	718	Contacts
Adventist Health HanfordHanford	Adventist Health	235	682	Contacts
Adventist Health Lodi MemorialLodi	Adventist Health	186	460	Contacts
Adventist Health ReedleyReedley	Adventist Health	49	349	Contacts
Adventist Health Sierra VistaSan Luis Obispo	Adventist Health	162	366	Contacts
Adventist Health Simi ValleySimi Valley	Adventist Health	136	497	Contacts
Adventist Health SonoraSonora	Adventist Health	84	566	Contacts
Adventist Health St. HelenaSaint Helena	Adventist Health	141	363	Contacts
Adventist Health TulareTulare	Adventist Health	73	402	Contacts
Adventist Health Twin CitiesTempleton	Adventist Health	122	306	Contacts
Adventist Health Ukiah ValleyUkiah	Adventist Health	50	590	Contacts
Adventist Health White MemorialLos Angeles	Adventist Health	-	637	Contacts
Adventist Health White Memorial MontebelloMontebello	Adventist Health	-	23	Contacts
AHMC Anaheim Regional Medical CenterAnaheim	AHMC Healthcare	-	229	Contacts
AHMC San Gabriel Valley Medical CenterSan Gabriel	AHMC Healthcare	175	246	Contacts
AHMC Seton Medical CenterDaly City	AHMC Healthcare	188	246	Contacts
Alameda Health System - Highland HospitalOakland	Alameda County	232	1,004	Contacts
Alameda HospitalAlameda	Alameda County	66	364	Contacts
Alhambra Hospital Medical CenterAlhambra	AHMC Healthcare	101	188	Contacts
Alta Bates Summit Medical CenterOakland	Sutter Health	251	1,129	Contacts
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center \| Alta Bates CampusBerkeley	Sutter Health	315	1,173	Contacts
Anaheim Community HospitalAnaheim	Signature HealthCARE	98	41	Contacts
Anaheim Global Medical CenterAnaheim	The KPC Group	103	72	Contacts
Antelope Valley Medical CenterLancaster	Antelope Valley Healthcare District	393	430	Contacts
Antioch Medical CenterAntioch	Kaiser Permanente	144	487	Contacts
Arrowhead Regional Medical CenterColton	San Bernardino County	366	708	Contacts
Barstow Community HospitalBarstow	Health Side Partners	30	106	Contacts
Barton Memorial HospitalSouth Lake Tahoe	Barton Health	-	299	Contacts
California Pacific Medical Center Davies CampusSan Francisco	Sutter Health	-	967	Contacts
California Pacific Medical Center Mission Bernal Campus & Orthopedic InstituteSan Francisco	Sutter Health	120	634	Contacts
California Pacific Medical Center Van Ness CampusSan Francisco	Sutter Health	274	1,443	Contacts
Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for HealthcarePomona	Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare	31	351	Contacts
Cedars-Sinai Marina HospitalMarina Del Rey	Cedars-Sinai Health System	103	450	Contacts
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterLos Angeles	Cedars-Sinai Health System	913	3,136	Contacts
Centinela Hospital Medical CenterInglewood	Prime Healthcare	289	259	Contacts
CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical CenterLos Angeles	CHA Health Systems	-	375	Contacts
Chapman Global Medical CenterOrange	The KPC Group	75	81	Contacts
Chinese HospitalSan Francisco	Chinese Hospital	58	214	Contacts
Chino Valley Medical CenterChino	Prime Healthcare	112	188	Contacts
Clovis Community Medical CenterClovis	Community Health System	352	1,116	Contacts
Coast Plaza HospitalNorwalk	Pipeline Health System	117	122	Contacts
College Hospital Costa MesaCosta Mesa	College Health Enterprises	122	21	Contacts
College Medical CenterLong Beach	College Health Enterprises	-	129	Contacts
Colusa Medical CenterColusa	American Advanced Management	42	96	Contacts
Community Hospital of Huntington ParkHuntington Park	Pipeline Health System	81	88	Contacts
Community Hospital of the Monterey PeninsulaMonterey	Montage Health	227	918	Contacts
Community Memorial Hospital - VenturaVentura	Community Memorial Healthcare	-	712	Contacts

Showing 1 to 10 of 279 acute care hospitals in California

Sources: Provider of Services File (CMS) and Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data

Kaiser Permanente runs the most California acute care hospitals, with 32

Dmand AI maps every hospital to its parent organization, up to the health system. 34 health systems and parent organizations run two or more California acute care hospitals. HCPs are counted at each hospital, so a clinician at two hospitals counts twice.

Health systems with the most California acute care hospitals
#	Health system	California acute care	Staffed beds	HCPs
1	Kaiser PermanenteDiversified health company	32	7,052	25,218
2	CommonSpirit HealthHealth system	24	4,637	11,598
3	Sutter HealthHealth system	22	2,699	17,063
4	Adventist HealthHealth system	16	2,157	7,653
5	ProvidenceHealth system	14	3,171	8,491
6	Prime HealthcareHealth system	14	2,062	2,574
7	AHMC HealthcareHealth system	9	1,192	1,735
8	University of California HealthAcademic health system	7	2,067	15,467
9	Tenet HealthcareHealth system	7	1,296	2,680
10	County of Los AngelesLocal government	5	1,136	5,399

Top 10 of 34 systems and parent organizations with two or more California acute care hospitals

Kaiser PermanenteDiversified health company · 32 California acute care hospitals
Fontana Medical CenterAcute care hospital · Fontana
Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical CenterAcute care hospital · San Diego
Orange County - Anaheim Medical CenterAcute care hospital · Anaheim
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical CenterAcute care hospital · Los Angeles
28 more acute care hospitals and 22 outpatient sites

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166 of the 279 California acute care hospitals are nonprofit, according to CMS

72 are for-profit and 40 are run by a government. 118 are teaching hospitals, 187 have an emergency department and 48 are trauma centers.

Nonprofit166

Government40

For-profit72

Teaching hospitals118

Emergency departments187

Trauma centers48

Sources: Provider of Services File (CMS) and Hospital Provider Cost Report (CMS)

Stanford Hospital at 300 Pasteur Drive has the most affiliated doctors of any California acute care hospital, with 3,928

Across all 279 California acute care hospitals, 119,840 HCPs have a current affiliation, 77,089 of them physicians. Each clinician is counted once. UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights is second with 2,948 affiliated physicians.

HCPs at California acute care hospitals by type

Physicians (MD, DO)77,08964%
Nurses and nurse practitioners13,88512%
Physician assistants7,9467%
Behavioral health clinicians3,5213%
Other HCPs17,39915%

Largest physician specialties at California acute care hospitals

Internal medicine11,413
Family medicine8,578
Emergency medicine6,403
Anesthesiology5,174
Diagnostic radiology3,452
Hospitalist2,920
Obstetrics and gynecology2,783
Psychiatry2,072

Source: Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Los Angeles has the most acute care hospitals in California, with 16

16acute care hospitals in Los Angeles 10acute care hospitals in San Francisco 6acute care hospitals in Sacramento 5acute care hospitals in Anaheim 5acute care hospitals in Bakersfield 4acute care hospitals in Fresno

More California cities with two or more acute care hospitals

186 California cities have at least one acute care hospital. City pages list every hospital type.

Source: Provider of Services File (CMS)

Each California acute care hospital profile shows beds, the org hierarchy, HCPs and leaders

Beds, discharges and revenueStaffed beds, inpatient discharges and net patient revenue from CMS cost reportsOn every profile
Health system and sister hospitalsThe parent system and a sample of its other hospitalsOn every profile
Affiliated HCPsA count by specialty and a sample of the physicians who practice thereOn every profile
Size ranksRank by beds, discharges and revenue in the state and the USOn every profile
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Sources: Hospital Provider Cost Report (CMS), Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data and Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Sources for the California acute care hospital directory

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this page	Source
Hospitals, types and services	Provider of Services File (CMS)
Beds, discharges and revenue	Hospital Provider Cost Report (CMS)
Health systems and outpatient sites	Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Affiliated HCPs	Dmand AI Affiliation Data
Executives and department leaders	Dmand AI Executive Data

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The directory counts hospitals with a CMS certification number (CCN) that CMS classifies as acute care hospitals. Beds come from each hospital's latest cost report.

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How many acute care hospitals are in California?

There are 279 acute care hospitals in California, in 186 cities, with 51,561 staffed beds between them.

What is an acute care hospital?

A hospital that treats patients for a short stay after a sudden illness, injury or surgery, usually with an emergency department. CMS calls them short-term acute care hospitals; critical access, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term care hospitals are separate types.

What is the largest acute care hospital in California?

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, with 913 staffed beds in its latest CMS cost report. UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights is second with 887, and Community Regional Medical Center is third with 783.

Which health system has the most acute care hospitals in California?

Kaiser Permanente, with 32 acute care hospitals, followed by CommonSpirit Health with 24 and Sutter Health with 22.

How many California acute care hospitals are nonprofit?

166 of 279, according to CMS ownership records. 72 are for-profit and 40 are government hospitals.

How do I find a hospital's CCN or NPI?

Each California hospital profile lists its CMS certification number (CCN) and NPI at the top, next to the address and main phone number.

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