# Universal Health Services **Universal Health Services (UHS)** is a publicly traded for-profit operator (NYSE: UHS) headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Among the major for-profit chains it is distinctive: its scale is in **behavioral health**, not acute-care hospitals. ## Scale At the end of 2024, UHS operated about **28 inpatient acute-care hospitals** but roughly **330 inpatient behavioral health facilities**, alongside outpatient and ambulatory operations in the U.S. and U.K. Total revenue ran around **$16 billion**. The behavioral-health footprint makes UHS the largest operator of psychiatric facilities among the publicly traded chains. ## Why It Matters Here UHS illustrates a different corner of the [[For-Profit Hospital]] model: behavioral and psychiatric care, a sector with its own reimbursement dynamics and its own history of scrutiny. UHS has faced significant investigations and settlements over admissions and billing practices at its behavioral facilities — including a large 2020 settlement with the federal government — which critics cite as a structural risk of applying for-profit incentives to vulnerable psychiatric populations. It rounds out the for-profit field alongside [[HCA Healthcare]], [[Community Health Systems]], and [[Tenet Healthcare]]. See [[Healthcare Industry Ecosystem]].