Title: Private hospital
Content:  According to the 2014 American Hospital Association Annual Survey, there are 5,686 hospitals in the United States. Of that total, 2,904 are public hospitals, and 1,060 are private. There are a total of 795,603 staffed beds in public hospitals and 118,910 staffed beds in private hospitals. Public hospitals had about 33.6 million admissions annually while private hospitals had about 1.8 million admissions annually. That being said, the sheer outnumbering of private hospitals narrows down your options and more so in cases of emergencies. The hospital around the corner is most likely a public one, so they are more readily accessible. There are 126 hospitals in New York City aside from specialized state and Federal institutions. Of these, 32, with a total of 4,401 beds, are proprietary, or profit-making, hospitals; 75 are voluntary hospitals operated by private groups on a nonprofit basis, and 19 are municipal hospitals operated by the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Title: Lists of hospitals in the United States
Content:  In 2020, there were 5,250 acute care and critical access hospitals in the United States. In the decade from 2010 to 2020, dozens of hospitals have closed in rural areas of the United States, particularly in the Southeast region. Of the 3,143 county-equivalents in the United States, there were 700 counties in the United States with no hospitals in 2020. The following list contains links to the lists and the number of articles in the main category for each state. (There may be additional psychiatric, county, and teaching hospitals not included in the main category).
Title: Hospital network
Content:  The largest hospital networks headquartered in the United States are included in the table below. The name, headquarters location, number of hospitals, funding type and founding year are given for each network. There were 6,146 hospitals in the United States in 2020, of which 2,240 were managed by the largest 45 hospital networks. Notes:
Title: Lists of hospitals in the United States
Content: List of hospitals in American Samoa (total: 1) ; List of hospitals in Guam (total: 3) ; List of hospitals in the Northern Mariana Islands (total: 1) ; List of hospitals in Puerto Rico (notable: ) ; List of hospitals in the United States Virgin Islands (total: 2) List of hospitals in the Federated States of Micronesia (total: 5) ; List of hospitals in the Marshall Islands (total: 3) ; List of hospitals in Palau (total: 1) Lists or actual hospitals in insular areas of the United States include: Freely associated states:
Title: Health care in the United States
Content:  In the United States, ownership of the healthcare system is mainly in private hands, though federal, state, county, and city governments also own certain facilities. As of 2018, there were 5,534 registered hospitals in the United States. There were 4,840 community hospitals, which are defined as nonfederal, short-term general, or specialty hospitals. The non-profit hospitals share of total hospital capacity has remained relatively stable (about 70%) for decades. There are also privately owned for-profit hospitals as well as government hospitals in some locations, mainly owned by county and city governments. The Hill-Burton Act was passed in 1946, which provided federal funding for hospitals in exchange for treating poor patients. The largest hospital 
Title: List of hospitals in Japan
Content:  There were 8,372 hospitals in Japan in October 2018. The largest number of hospitals were in Tokyo with 650 hospitals.
Title: Lists of hospitals in the United States
Content:  This article contains links to lists of hospitals in the United States, including U.S. States, the District, insular areas, and outlying islands. Links to more detailed state lists are shown. According to a report by the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina in 2017, 79 mostly rural hospitals have closed since 2010, mostly across the Southern United States.
Title: List of hospitals in Pennsylvania
Content:  This is a list of hospitals in Pennsylvania, a U.S. state. The list includes only hospitals that are currently licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health or operated the Veterans Health Administration according to data collected by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) and the Pennsylvania Department of Health. As of July 2018, there were 249 state licensed hospitals and VA hospital facilities in Pennsylvania. 148 of these facilities were non-profit, 86 were for-profit or "investor-owned", and 15 were public hospitals owned by the Federal government, state government, or in one case, the city of Philadelphia. There were 42,817 total licensed beds and 1,880 total operating rooms. 156 were general acute hospitals (with 10 more classified as general acute specialty hospitals), 29 were psychiatric hospitals, 22 were long-term acute care hospitals, 21 were rehabilitation hospitals, and 7 were VA hospitals. The largest hospital by both beds and operating rooms was UPMC Presbyterian-Shadyside in Pittsburgh. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was also the largest health system network in the state by number of hospitals (28), beds (7,022), and operating rooms (379).
Title: List of hospitals in Brazil
Content: Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo ; Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre ; Hospital Daher, Lago Sul ; Hospital São Paulo, São Paulo ; Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo ; Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo ; Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual, São Paulo ; Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital, Porto Alegre ; Hospital Vitória, Rio de Janeiro ; Hospital Samaritano, Rio de Janeiro ; Hospital Barra D´or, Rio de Janeiro ; Hospital Unimed, Rio de Janeiro ; Hospital Rio Mar, Rio de Janeiro ; Hospital São Luiz, São Paulo ; Clínica SEUMED, Maringá This is a list of hospitals in Brazil. There are 105 hospitals in Brazil, accounting for a total of 480,332 hospital beds. 66 percent of the hospitals are private and the remaining 34% are public, being either Federal, State or Municipal hospitals. 
Title: List of hospitals in Wisconsin
Content:  As of June 2020, there were 159 hospitals in Wisconsin.

Question: how many hospitals are there in the united states?
Answer: 5,534 registered hospitals.
5,534.