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A hospital network is a public, non-profit or for-profit company or organization that provides two or more hospitals and other broad healthcare facilities and services. A hospital network may include hospitals in one or more regions within one or more states within one or more countries. A hospital network has one headquarter, usually within one of the regions served by the network facilities. (The terms hospital system and health care system are used more broadly to define the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of a region or country.)
History
Some of the earliest hospital networks were affiliated with charitable, religious organizations. The Catholic Church established a hospital network in Medieval Europe that was vastly improved from the merely reciprocal hospitality of the Greeks and family-based obligations of the Romans. These hospitals were established to cater to "particular social groups marginalized by poverty, sickness, and age," according to historian of hospitals, Guenter Risse.
In the late 20th century hospital networks were established to make delivery of healthcare more efficient and to share specialized medical services and physicians across the network. To avoid financial losses due to shrinking reimbursements and rising costs as well as improving quality of care and avoid duplication of services, hospitals may consolidate certain services at one hospital. However, patients may need to travel farther if those services are no longer offered at their local hospital.
Largest hospital networks
Hospital networks that do not have reliable sources may not be included; these are not necessarily complete lists.
= Ranked by capacity
=This is a list of hospital networks with a capacity of more than 2,500 beds.
= Ranked by staff
=This is a list of hospital networks with at least 20,000 staff.
By country
= United States
=The largest hospital networks headquartered in the United States are included in the table below. The name, headquarters location, number of hospitals, funding type and founding year are given for each network. There were 6,146 hospitals in the United States in 2020, of which 2,240 were managed by the largest 45 hospital networks.
Notes:
= Canadian headquartered hospital networks
=Alberta Health Services, Province of Alberta, 106 hospitals
Scarborough Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, 3 hospitals
Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, 2 hospitals
The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, 3 hospitals
Toronto East Health Network
Trillium Health Partners, Toronto, Ontario, 3 hospitals
Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 3 hospitals
University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, 4 hospitals
William Osler Health System, Brampton, Ontario, 2 hospitals
Grey Bruce Health Services, Grey County, Ontario and Bruce County, Ontario, 6 hospitals
Halton Healthcare, Greater Toronto Area, 3 hospitals
London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, 2 hospitals
McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, 7 hospitals
= Irish headquartered hospital networks
=A new grouping of hospitals was announced by the Irish Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly TD in May 2013, as part of a restructure of Irish public hospitals and a goal of delivering better patient care:
Dublin North East (subsequently renamed RCSI Hospitals)
Dublin Midlands (subsequently renamed Dublin Midlands Hospital Group)
Dublin East (subsequently renamed Ireland East Hospital Group)
South/South West (subsequently renamed South/Southwest Hospital Group)
West/North West (subsequently renamed Saolta University Health Care Group)
Mid West (subsequently renamed UL Hospitals Group)
= United Kingdom
=National Health Service (England)
NHS Scotland
NHS Wales
Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
= Other
=Aga Khan Health Services, HQ in France
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; 44 hospitals
Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Taiwan, 8 hospitals
Hirslanden Private Hospital Group, Switzerland, 17 hospitals
See also
Health system
History of hospitals
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