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American Hospital Directory
 

The American Hospital Directory provides online, comparative data for most United States (also Puerto Rico and Guam) hospitals, including hospital characteristics, services provided, outpatient statistics, financial reports, inpatient utilization, costs and charges. The database contains Medicare claims data, cost reports, and other public use files obtained from the federal Health Care Financing Administration. The directory also includes American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Data licensed from Health Forum, an AHA company.

Access From the Library's Electronic Resources page.  After clicking on the American Hospital Directory, you will be taken to a screen that gives you the user name and password to login.

Searching From the Hospital Search screen, you can search for hospitals by entering some or all of the following: Hospital Name, City, State (can select from pull down menu), Zip code, Telephone area code. Click on Submit Query to begin search.

The List of Search Results screen lists the hospital(s) that match your search criteria. Click on the hospital's name to see its profile:

4 Hospital Characteristics are licensed from Health Forum. The AHA Survey period is given for the data.

4Click on Financial Statistics (taken from Medicare Cost Report files for the periods designated) 4Click on Inpatient Utilization for statistics (date taken from MedPAR files indicated) 4 Click on Outpatient Utilization for statistics (date taken from Medicare Standard Analytical Files indicated)

Printing, Emailing and Downloading/Saving Results: Use the export options when available or the Web browser function to print, email and save.

Exiting: There are controls that prevent simultaneous usage by more than one person using the same password. Please logout when finished.

How to Cite: You need to check with your professor on the preferred style to use to cite articles from full text databases. You may use the Library's  Style Manuals & Citation Methods web page or the American Psychological Association (APA's) guidelines for citing electronic resources web page .

 

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This page was created by Eileen Wakiji , Health Care Administration Librarian
University Library, California State University, Long Beach 

 

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