25 hospitals using the most temporary physicians 

Nearly 6,000 hospitals used temporary physicians to staff their facilities, according to a July report by Definitive Healthcare. 

Here are 20 hospitals with the highest number of temporary providers, followed by the number of temporary providers:

1. Christus Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital (Lake Charles, La.): 2,431
2. Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Shoreline (Corpus Christi, Texas): 2,402
3. Christus Southeast Texas-St. Elizabeth (Beaumont, Texas): 2,274
4. Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville (Texas): 2,266
5. Christus Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center (San Antonio): 2,248
6. Providence Hospital (Mobile, Ala.): 1,805
7. Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (Missouri): 1,772
8. MedStar Washington Hospital Center (Washington, D.C.): 729
9. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (Washington, D.C.): 1,662
10. Wilmington (Del.) Hospital: 1,452
11. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): 1,415
12. Grundy County Memorial Hospital (Grundy Center, Iowa): 1,360
13. Sibley Memorial Hospital (Washington, D.C.): 1,296
14. Saint Luke's South Hospital (Overland Park, Kan.): 1,295
15. Saint Luke's East Hospital (Lee's Summit, Mo.): 1,112
16. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.): 1,075
17. Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital (Alexandria, La.): 1,069
18. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (Tennessee.): 1,047
19. UPMC Presbyterian (Pittsburgh): 990
20. Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Mary's Campus (Rochester, Minn.): 986