NAICS 62211Industry · 5-digitregional market

General medical and surgical hospitals

This industry comprises establishments, licensed as hospitals, primarily engaged in providing diagnostic and medical treatment to in-patients of any age with any of a wide variety of diseases or medical conditions. These establishments usually provide other services, such as out-patient services, diagnostic X-ray services, clinical laboratory services and pharmacy services. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA
630
with employees · summed from 6-digit industries
Under 10 employeesA
3%
most common size: 500+
Establishments · USA
6,048
Employment · USA
5,647,644
934 per establishment
Payroll · USA
$433.5B
$77k per employee
01

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–4152%
5–971%
10–1941%
20–49284%
50–998313%
100–1999315%
200–49914223%
500+25841%

Of 630 Canadian establishments with employees, 3% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

Ontario18830%
Quebec11017%
British Columbia8113%
Manitoba6610%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA
Health Care and Social Assistance, US · opened 2020
84%
1 year
65.3%
3 years
52.6%
5 years
36.4%
10 years
opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

02

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 622, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

regional competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 622 Hospitals

Publicly funded and governed in Canada. The market is in selling to hospitals, not in being one.

Who sets the price
Government.
The software it runs on
Hospital information systems with decade-long procurement cycles.
03

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 6221 General medical and surgical hospitals covers it.

04

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Sold across the wider branch

05

Who works here

The occupations employed in Health care and social assistance, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

All 162 occupations →

06

Inside this industry

2 rows sit directly beneath 62211. Each has a base report of its own.

CodeIndustryEstablishments · CAWhat is known
622111General (except paediatric) hospitals614screened at 6221
622112Paediatric hospitals16screened at 6221