How far is the nearest hospital?

Hospitals from the federal HIFLD inventory: the distance is a straight line from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest open general or critical-access hospital, and the inventory can lag closures and mergers, so Ohio's list is checked against Medicare's Provider of Services file and local news. The search crosses the state line: within 40 miles of Ohio it also counts the acute-care and critical-access hospitals in Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Michigan that Medicare lists with an emergency department, so a river town opposite Huntington or New Martinsville is measured to the hospital across the bridge, not to the nearest one in Ohio (until September 25, 2026 the map counted Ohio's hospitals only, and South Point, Chesapeake and Proctorville read 27 to 32 miles). A hospital in Kentucky or West Virginia is measured through the nearest Ohio River road bridge, so a town that faces one across the river with no bridge between, as New Matamoras faces Sistersville, is not counted as close to it; the community health center, dialysis and VA lines on the card count the same way.

1,229 of 1,233 ZIPs have data; median 7.1 mi.

Open this topic on the map

Legend

Map of Ohio by Hospitals

Source

Nearest hospital: miles from each ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest open general or critical-access hospital in Ohio, or, within 40 miles of the state line in Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Michigan, the nearest acute-care or critical-access hospital that Medicare Care Compare lists with an emergency department (or that holds a trauma-center designation); a straight line, except that a hospital in Kentucky or West Virginia is measured through the nearest Ohio River road bridge (FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025), and Canadian hospitals across Lake Erie are not counted. Hospitals from the HIFLD hospitals inventory via FEMA (closed hospitals the inventory still lists, checked against the CMS Provider of Services file for the second quarter of 2026 and local news through September 2026, and freestanding emergency and long-term care sites, left out; hospitals opened since, such as Mount Carmel Dublin in 2025, added), with Medicare Care Compare overall star ratings and emergency-service flags matched by name and address; CMS Timely and Effective Care measure OP_18b (median emergency department time, October 2024 to September 2025); CMS HCAHPS patient survey (October 2024 to September 2025) and Complications and Deaths (30-day death rates July 2022 to June 2025, patient-safety composite July 2022 to June 2024), joined by Medicare facility ID; Veterans Health Administration medical facilities (HIFLD copy of the VA station list; fixed sites, mobile units left out); HRSA health center service delivery sites (federally qualified health centers and look-alikes, active sites, September 2026; school-based sites, which serve their own students, left out); CMS dialysis facility list (September 2026) geocoded with the Census batch geocoder (addresses it could not place sit at their ZIP center); the clinic, dialysis and VA lines count sites in Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Michigan within 40 miles of Ohio as well, through the nearest Ohio River bridge to Kentucky and West Virginia; NPPES NPI registry, August 2026 monthly file, active providers by practice ZIP

CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files

Open this topic on the map

PeopleJobsEconomic historyUpward mobilitySocial vulnerabilityHealthLife expectancyNursing homesCrimePoliceFire and EMSLibrariesGroceries

Cite this page