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Increases in site-specific eating disorder (ED) care have been documented; however, multisite studies demonstrating national trends are lacking.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Objective<\/jats:title>To compare the number of adolescent\/young adult patients seeking inpatient and outpatient ED care before and after onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>Using an observational case series design, changes in volume in inpatient and outpatient ED-related care across 15 member sites (14 geographically diverse hospital-based adolescent medicine programs and 1 nonhospital-based ED program) of the US National Eating Disorder Quality Improvement Collaborative was examined. Sites reported monthly volumes of patients seeking inpatient and outpatient ED care between January 2018 and December 2021. Patient volumes pre- and postpandemic onset were compared separately for inpatient and outpatient settings. Demographic data such as race and ethnicity were not collected because this study used monthly summary data.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposures<\/jats:title>Onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>Monthly number of patients seeking inpatient\/outpatient ED-related care.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Aggregate total inpatient ED admissions were 81 in January 2018 and 109 in February 2020. Aggregate total new outpatient assessments were 195 in January 2018 and 254 in February 2020. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the relative number of pooled inpatient ED admissions were increasing over time by 0.7% per month (95% CI, 0.2%-1.3%). After onset of the pandemic, there was a significant increase in admissions over time of 7.2% per month (95% CI, 4.8%-9.7%) through April 2021, then a decrease of 3.6% per month (95% CI, \u22126.0% to \u22121.1%) through December 2021. Prepandemic, pooled data showed relative outpatient ED assessment volume was stable over time, with an immediate 39.7% decline (95% CI, \u221250.4% to \u221226.7%) in April 2020. Subsequently, new assessments increased by 8.1% (95% CI, 5.3%-11.1%) per month through April 2021, then decreased by 1.5% per month (95% CI, \u22123.6% to 0.7%) through December 2021. The nonhospital-based ED program did not demonstrate a significant increase in the absolute number of admissions after onset of the pandemic but did see a significant increase of 8.2 (95% CI, 6.2-10.2) additional inquiries for care per month in the first year after onset of the pandemic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In this study, there was a significant COVID-19 pandemic-related increase in both inpatient and outpatient volume of patients with EDs across sites, particularly in the first year of the pandemic. 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