Hospital Ownership Type Classification Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

Hospital ownership type classification means attaching a control label - nongovernment not-for-profit, investor-owned for-profit, state or local government, or federal - to every row of a hospital universe, so a list or a model segments 6,100 institutions instead of lumping them. The American Hospital Association treats control as a first-class cut: its Fast Facts table splits the 5,121 community hospitals three ways by ownership before reporting a single utilization figure.

For cross-walking, the Demographics tab searches CCN, NPI and Tax ID/EIN, so a facility matches into other files by identifier rather than by fuzzy name. As a scale check: the AHA counts about 6,100 US hospitals overall, while AHD profiles more than 7,000 Medicare-certified ones.

A reproducible sequence, ordered cheapest-first:

The pattern is consistent - control labels are either browsable one hospital at a time (American Hospital Directory) or aggregated to national counts (AHA), while everything bulk-downloadable stops at facility type or identity. Definitive Healthcare - Hospital, IDN and Post-Acute Facility Intelligence is the exception that prices its way around the constraint: HospitalView spans short-term acute, long-term acute care, critical access, VA, pediatric, psychiatric, rehabilitation and religious non-medical institutions with affiliations attached. For aggregate sanity checks, AHD's companion record also publishes free state and national statistics on bed size, discharges, patient days and gross patient revenue.