Delivering acute inpatient care, short-stay hospitals are the backbone of the hospital infrastructure that serves more than 62 million Americans with Medicare Part A insurance.  As of the calendar year 2020, more than 6,200 hospitals of all kinds participated in the Medicare program. More than 56% of those participating hospitals were short-stay hospitals.  More significantly, participating short-stay hospitals accounted for more than 83% of the total hospital beds serving Medicare Part A enrollees with inpatient hospital services.

In the calendar year 2020, there were 493 short-stay hospitals in the Great Lakes region that were participating in the Medicare program.  The short-stay hospitals in the region housed just over 123,800 beds.  While the region was home to about 14.7% of the nation's Medicare Part A enrollment, it held 16.0% of the Medicare program's short-stay hospital bed capacity.  Here is a state-level look at Medicare short-stay hospital beds in the Great Lakes region:

Medicare Short Stay Hospital Beds in the Great Lakes Region

	# Part A Enrollees		# Hospitals	# Beds
IL	2,246,603		120	33,645
IN	1,282,040		86	16,290
MI	2,099,433		93	24,437
OH	2,368,612		128	35,367
WI	1,200,220		66	14,080
Region	9,196,909		493	123,819
National*	62,498,751		3,481	774,873
% of National	14.7%		14.2%	16.0%

* National totals include U.S. territories

Source:  CMS Program Statistics, Table: MDCR PROVIDERS 4. Medicare Providers:  Number of Medicare Certified Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities, and Number of Beds, by State, Territories, Possessions. and Other, the Calendar Year 2020