Who staffs your region's healthcare

County briefs on hospitals, clinics and care homes, the employers that run them, and the clinicians and nurses who work there. For economic development, workforce boards and community coalitions.

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Barnstable County, MA

Healthcare workforce brief · 2026-10-27

Residents: 231,66833% aged 65+ (Massachusetts 18%)
Hospitals: 4416 beds
Outpatient sites and ERs: 3run by the hospitals
Urgent care centers: 104.3 per 100,000
Nursing homes: 141,439 beds

Largest employer: Cape Cod Healthcare, with 82% of the county's hospital beds.

Three questions regions bring us

Economic development

Who are our largest healthcare employers, and are they run from here?

Every hospital, clinic and care home in the region, the system or company behind each one, and whether that owner is local, from out of state or national.

Workforce boards

Where will the next shortage show up?

Physicians, nurse practitioners and other clinicians per 100,000 residents, nurse jobs and wages, all set against the state.

Community coalitions

Can everyone here reach care?

Provider supply county by county, how residents are insured, and the counties where urgent care and hospital beds run thin.

A 1920s exhibit of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society: a nurse at a bathing table with infant clothes — Community nursing, 1920s: the visiting nurse societies counted their region before anyone else did.

The numbers a board asks for first

Barnstable County, MA, from the brief above. Every county and state has the same figures, set against its state.

1944 recruiting poster: Be a Cadet Nurse, the girl with a future, from the Greater Boston Nursing Council — Massachusetts recruited its nurses by poster in 1944. The shortage is older than the data.

33.1%: of residents are 65 or older, against 17.9% in Massachusetts
1.8: hospital beds per 1,000 residents (Massachusetts 2.8)
115: primary care physicians per 100,000 residents (Massachusetts 93)
803: registered nurse jobs per 100,000 in the Barnstable Town, MA area (Massachusetts 1,252)
91: nurse practitioner jobs per 100,000 (Massachusetts 115)

The main entrance of Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis — Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis.

Name the employers, not just the jobs

Labor statistics count nurses; they do not say who signs their paychecks. Each brief ties every hospital, outpatient site and care home to the system or company that runs it, with the source and date of that fact.

Hospital systems in Barnstable County, MA
System	Hospitals	Share of beds
Cape Cod Healthcare	2	82%
MGB	1	14%
Owner not yet confirmed	1	4%

What a regional report holds

Provider supply

Hospitals with beds and discharges
Hospital outpatient sites, ERs and clinics
Urgent care centers per 100,000
Nursing homes and certified beds

Employers and owners

The health systems that run the region's hospitals
Each system's share of beds
Local, out-of-state and national owners
Every facility with its operator, sourced and dated

Clinicians and nurses

Clinicians per 100,000 residents, by kind
Registered nurses and nurse practitioners: jobs and wages
Where local clinicians are affiliated

People and coverage

Population and the share aged 65 and older
How residents are insured: employer, Medicare, Medicaid, uninsured
Medicare Advantage enrollment

Changes

Openings, closures and changes of owner in the region
Nursing homes that changed hands in the last year

Benchmarks

The county against its state and any peer counties you choose
Custom regions: workforce areas, planning districts, multi-county service areas

A 1916 Sanborn fire insurance map sheet of Barnstable, Massachusetts — Barnstable, 1916. Reports come by county, by state, or drawn around your own region.

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Pictures: Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Davee, CC BY 2.0; Be a Cadet Nurse, Greater Boston Nursing Council, 1944, Boston Public Library, CC BY 2.0; Instructive Visiting Nurse Society exhibit, Library of Congress, CC0; Sanborn map of Barnstable, 1916, Library of Congress, public domain.