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Hoag Hospital Irvine opened in 2010 and is a 154-bed, acute-care general hospital offering the residents of Irvine and surrounding communities a variety of inpatient and outpatient services as well as a fully staffed emergency room.
According to the American Hospital Association (AHA) 2014 statistics, which are as definitive as any you are going to get, there are 5723 registered hospitals in the US and 920,829 staffed beds. So that's the denominator. The total number of hospitals trended steadily down from 7156 in 1975 to 5810 in 2000, but has stayed fairly constant since then.