About 75 percent of healthcare establishments are hospitals.

• A. True
• B. Mostly
• C. Rarely
• D. False

Answer: (D)

Hospitals are just one type of healthcare establishment, but there are many other places where care is delivered, such as physician offices, clinics, urgent care centers, home health agencies, nursing facilities, laboratories, and diagnostic centers. Because of this mix, hospitals represent a subset rather than the majority of all healthcare establishments.

In most real-world settings, the total number of non-hospital facilities greatly outnumbers the number of hospitals. That means the idea that about 75 percent of healthcare establishments are hospitals isn’t accurate—the majority of establishments are other types of care sites.

This matters for healthcare information management because the distribution of establishment types influences data collection, coding, privacy considerations, and regulatory needs across the healthcare system. So the statement is false.