Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas reported the most emergency room visits in 2021, according to a report from NiceRx.
DALLAS — In a report from NiceRx, health experts said Dallas’ Parkland Health and Hospital System had the most emergency room visits in the nation in 2021.
According to their research, Parkland Health and Hospital System had 210,152 ER visits, nearly 20,000 more than the next hospital (190,581 at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center in Florida).
Parkland Memorial Hospital reached a record single-day total of visits to the emergency room, the study added.
Here is a list of the top 30 hospitals with the most ER visits in 2021, according to the data (*denotes hospitals reporting figure based on fiscal year 2021):
Parkland Health and Hospital System (Dallas) — 210,152*Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Health Medical Center — 190,581*NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln (New York City) — 164,979Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta) — 160,027St. Joseph’s University Medical Center (Paterson, N.J.) — 150,615Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth — 142,330Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center — 136,161UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora, Colo.) — 132,160*Antelope Valley Hospital (Lancaster, Calif.) — 130,659WakeMed Raleigh (N.C.) Campus — 127,059Boston Medical Center — 120,811*Cape Fear Valley Medical Center (Fayetteville, N.C.) — 119,774Montefiore Medical Center-Moses Campus (New York City) — 119,443John Peter Smith Hospital (Fort Worth, Texas) — 117,956Wellstar Kennestone Hospital (Marietta, Ga.) — 117,925Banner Desert Medical Center (Mesa, Ariz.) — 117,004UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central (Colorado Springs, Colo.) — 114,956*SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital-Oklahoma City (Okla.) — 111,577NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County (New York City) — 111,427Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) — 110,259University of Michigan Health – Ann Arbor — 105,730Hartford (Conn.) Hospital — 105,661 Sharp Grossmont Hospital (La Mesa, Calif.) —104,986Children’s Medical Center Dallas — 104,078Reading Hospital-Tower Health (West Reading, Pa.) — 102,689Community Regional Medical Center (Fresno, Calif.) — 101,073*Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital — 97,952Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (Annapolis, Md.) — 95,314NewYork-Presbyterian Queens (New York City) — 93,997Denver Health Medical Center — 91,015
More than 130 million Americans visit US emergency rooms each year, the study states. According to the data, the most common reasons for emergency room visits were: maternal and neonatal conditions, surgeries and COVID-19.