The new data on essential hospitals comes in the association’s annual snapshot of its members, Essential Data: Our Hospitals, Our Patients.

The annual report from America's Essential Hospitals shows the association's members provided disproportionate levels of uncompensated care, charity care, and physician training in 2016.

Latest member profile from America's Essential Hospitals shows that, despite ACA coverage expansion, uncompensated costs remained high in 2014 at hospitals with many low-income and other vulnerable patients.

America's Essential Hospitals' annual report also shows members maintain high-quality, patient satisfaction even with financial hurdles

Essential hospitals met their core commitment to vulnerable patients in 2012, the association’s new member characteristics data report shows. They also provided a disproportionate share of vital community services, including trauma, burn, and psychiatric care, and physician training—all while often operating at a loss.

Data shows member hospitals 2 percent of nation's acute care hospitals, but delivered 20 percent of uncompensated care