The following List of hospitals in the U.S. state of Minnesota is given in the order of the city where the hospital is or was located. It is also sortable by county, name, health system, and number of staffed beds. Hospitals that have closed are notated with the year of closing. Minnesota's oldest hospital is M Health Fairview's St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, which first opened in 1853 in the Minnesota Territory. The largest hospital, in terms of staffed beds, is Mayo Clinic Hospital - Rochester, which was founded in 1864 by William and Charlie Mayo and has a total of 2,014 beds (1,220 beds at its St. Marys campus and 794 at its Methodist campus). There are twice as many rural hospitals as urban hospitals in Minnesota. In 2017, Minnesota hospitals provided 536,375 inpatient visits and nearly 12.7 million outpatient visits.[1]