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The Health Care Facilities Data Guide (2026)
Health care facilities data guide, 2026 edition: Datadory catalogs 17 datasets for Health Care Facilities - 13 primary and 4 related - spanning HRSA's service-delivery-site files, shortage-area designations and Uniform Data System reporting, CMS's NPPES provider registry, a 127-column facility-week hospital capacity series and commercial Medicare-derived profiles. Five records score 9 of 10, led by three HRSA services, CMS's NPPES NPI Registry and Nareit's health care REIT sector page. It covers who publishes each source, what its fields hold, how far back history reaches, and which workflows each record serves.
1,744 datasets. Pick your catch.
The Health Care Facilities data landscape in 2026
Health Care Facilities is one of the most federally anchored slices in Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets: 7 of the 13 primary records come straight from federal publishers, and most of the load-bearing ones sit at HRSA, CMS and HHS.
The anchor is the HRSA Data Warehouse. It publishes geocoded service-delivery sites for roughly 1,400 health center awardees and look-alikes, the 86-file Area Health Resources release at county level, HPSA/MUA-P shortage designations with polygon boundaries and centroid points, and Uniform Data System reporting reaching back to 1999, alongside CSV and XLSX editions of every series. CMS's NPPES NPI Registry enumerates every covered provider and organization nationwide, distributed as a full replacement file each month of roughly 1,098 MB compressed. HealthData.gov keeps a 127-column facility-week COVID-19 capacity series covering some 6,000 hospitals from January 2020 through May 2024.
Capital-markets context completes the picture: Nareit's FTSE health care REIT aggregates and quarterly T-Tracker metrics, complemented by Census Bureau housing statistics for demand modeling. The full 17-record pool - 13 primary and 4 related - sits on the health-care-facilities data hub, with quality scores, field dictionaries and sample rows for every record.
The core datasets to know
The 13 primary records sort into three working layers: a federal agency layer, a Medicare-derived layer, and a capital-markets context layer.
The federal agency layer (7 records)
The Medicare-derived layer (4 records)
The capital-markets context layer (2 records)
- Nareit Health Care REIT Sector Profile and Performance Table (quality 9). FTSE Nareit index aggregates for about 18 indexed health care REITs - dividend yield, monthly/YTD/annual total returns - plus four families of quarterly T-Tracker operating metrics and a sortable constituent table of roughly 22 rows including non-traded vehicles.
- Nareit REIT Sectors Taxonomy Overview (quality 6). Static reference defining all 14 property sectors including mortgage REITs - the cleanest reference for classifying health care versus other facility-backed REITs.
Four related records round out the pool for adjacent discovery: CDC's Data.CDC.gov portal, the UK National Data Library, a Kaggle furniture-search hub, and a telecom-focused Data.gov catalog view.
Health Care Facilities data by use case
Every use case the brief tags for this industry maps onto named records:
What separates a usable health care facilities source from a raw dump
The strongest health care facilities sources share three traits, and each one decides whether a project survives contact with production:
None of these traits shows up in a screenshot. They show up in sample rows - which is why every Datadory record leads with real rows and a documented field dictionary before any commitment.
Who uses Health Care Facilities data?
Four kinds of teams account for most of the traffic on these records, and they search in noticeably different phrases.
How to build a Health Care Facilities data stack
A workable stack for this industry anchors on identifiers and adds depth only where a deliverable demands it.
What the numbers say
Eight figures condense the pool. Every one traces to the catalog records summarized in this guide.
Health Care Facilities data: frequently asked questions
Eight questions cover most of what searchers ask about this pool - who publishes the facility-level files, what the NPPES registry contains, how far back the archives run, and which records cover post-acute and surgery centers.
Keep reading
- health-care-facilities data hub - the full 17-record pool on one index page, with quality scores, field dictionaries, sample rows and coverage spans for every dataset in this guide.
- data scientists - how modeling teams rank all 1,744 cataloged datasets on schemas, history depth and training-permissive fields; 666 clear the top tier.
- market researchers - sourcing guidance for client-ready analysis, anchored to AHD profiles, AHA survey tables and Nareit's T-Tracker families.
| measure | figure |
|---|---|
| Datasets cataloged for the industry | 17 pooled (13 primary + 4 related) |
| Primary records published by federal agencies | 7 of 13 (HRSA x3, CMS, HHS, Data.gov, Census Bureau) |
| Mean Datadory quality score, primary slice | 7.3 of 10; five records score 9 |
| Widest single release | AHRF: 86 files at county grain; the facilities file alone holds 716 columns |
| Temporal coverage across the pool | UDS reporting back to 1999; AHRF editions 1999-2000 through 2024-2025; capacity series Jan 2020-May 2024 |
| Largest single artifact | NPPES full replacement file: ~1,098 MB compressed, over 4 GB uncompressed |
| Deepest time series | HealthData.gov: 127 columns per facility-week, ~6,000 hospitals over ~230 weeks (Jan 2020 - May 2024) |
| Widest discovery layer | Data.gov: ~552,000 cataloged federal and non-federal datasets |
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Get a sampleQuestions worth asking
Where can I get US hospital capacity data?
HealthData.gov publishes a 127-column facility-week hospital capacity series covering roughly 6,000 US hospitals from January 2020 through May 2024 - one row per hospital per collection week, with ICU occupancy, admissions and staffing-shortage fields. Values reflect only reports received, with no adjustment for non-reporting facilities. HRSA's Data Warehouse adds facility locators and the county-level Area Health Resources files.
What is included in the AHA Annual Survey Database?
More than 6,200 hospitals across 1,300-plus data points, with editions back to 1946; the 2026 edition reflects the 2024 survey. The database is distributed through ahadata.com, while AHA.org itself publishes the aggregate Fast Facts statistical series - one table of roughly 15 metrics per year.
Where can I find community health center (FQHC) data?
HRSA's Uniform Data System is the standard: the 2025 H80 workbook covers 1,356 health center awardees across 38 sheets with patient characteristics and quality measures, plus a look-alike workbook and a service-delivery-sites file of about 12.8 MB with 56 columns. Historical UDS files reach back to 1999 through the Electronic Reading Room.
What data is available on health care REITs?
Nareit's health care sector page combines FTSE Nareit index aggregates - about 18 indexed health care REITs with dividend yield and monthly total returns - with four families of quarterly T-Tracker operating metrics and a sortable table of roughly 22 constituents including non-traded vehicles.
Which databases cover post-acute and surgery center facilities?
Definitive Healthcare's Atlas platform lists 100,000-plus post-acute organizations, 14,000-plus ambulatory surgery centers and 22,000-plus imaging centers, enriched with claims, affiliations, technology installs and executive contacts. HRSA's files partly overlap for federally supported providers such as FQHC look-alikes.