Astrelis
Critical Access Hospital · Sandwich, IL

VALLEY WEST COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

CCN 141340DeKalb CountyVoluntary non-profit - Private17 bedsLatest FY 2025
Cost-report basis
HCRIS · as filed
Not audited by Astrelis
The read

A hospital in Sandwich, IL. It ran an operating surplus of 26.2% in FY25 on $69.0M of operating revenue. It held 549 days of cash on hand (94th percentile of 822 Critical Access Hospitals on liquidity, FY25 pool). Operating margin improved from 14.9% in FY21 to 26.2% in FY25.

Operating margin · FY25
+26.2%
Astrelis calculation · as-filed inputs
▲ 4.7 pts vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals97th pctl of 824 (FY25 pool)
pool: this metric's own fiscal year · excludes historical, non-panel, and out-of-range values
Days cash on hand · FY25
549d
all sources
Astrelis calculation · as-filed inputs
▼ 29 days vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals94th pctl of 822 (FY25 pool)
pool: this metric's own fiscal year · excludes historical, non-panel, and out-of-range values
Total operating revenue · FY25
$69.0M
Astrelis calculation · as-filed inputs
▲ $7.3M vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals81st pctl of 833 (FY25 pool)
pool: this metric's own fiscal year · excludes historical, non-panel, and out-of-range values
Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY25
+30.3%
Astrelis calculation · as-filed inputs
▲ 4.9 pts vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals97th pctl of 824 (FY25 pool)
pool: this metric's own fiscal year · excludes historical, non-panel, and out-of-range values
One point of operating margin at VALLEY WEST COMMUNITY HOSPITAL is about $690K per year (1% of FY25 total operating revenue).

Where VALLEY WEST COMMUNITY sits among Critical Access Hospitals

Operating margin · FY25 pool · n = 824 of 1,399 filed

Each point is one Critical Access Hospital in the national FY25 distribution for this provider type, placed by operating margin. Facilities are not matched on size, case mix, or market; that is the matched-peer comparison in the paid benchmark. The Critical Access Hospital FY25 median is -0.2%. Descriptive context only, not a ranking.

-20%-10%0%+10%+20%Critical Access Hospital median -0.2%VALLEY WEST +26.2%-20%0%+20%Critical Access Hospital median -0.2%VALLEY WEST +26.2%
One critical access hospitalVALLEY WESTCritical Access Hospital median

The money

$ thousands · HCRIS cost-report basis · as filed, QA-gated

Ratios tell you how this hospital is doing. Statements tell you what kind of organization it is, and where the money comes from. Every figure below traces to a public cost-report filing, shown as filed. A ratio computes only when every input is reported in the filing (otherwise its cell states which input is Not reported in source); a year whose balance sheet does not reconcile is labeled, and its derived ratios read Astrelis calculation unavailable. Not audited by Astrelis.

Operating margin
+26.2% (FY25)
Operating income ÷ total operating revenue
Astrelis calculation · HCRIS WS G-3
Total margin
+30.3% (FY25)
Net income ÷ total revenue incl. nonoperating
Astrelis calculation · HCRIS WS G-3
Days cash on hand
549d (FY25)
Cash, investments & board-designated reserves ÷ daily operating expense (excl. depreciation)
Astrelis calculation · HCRIS WS G / G-3
Current ratio
5.23× (FY25)
Total current assets ÷ current liabilities
Astrelis calculation · HCRIS WS G
Equity financing ratio
93% (FY25)
Total net assets ÷ total assets
Astrelis calculation · HCRIS WS G
Days in net patient A/R
-80d (FY25) — outside expected range; shown at the chart boundary and included in peer statistics
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
Astrelis calculation · HCRIS WS G / G-3
Medicare inpatient contribution margin
+52.9% (FY24)
Full comparison in the CAH Performance Benchmark.
HCRIS cost report · CAH economics engine
Medicare outpatient contribution margin
+75.7% (FY24)
Full comparison in the CAH Performance Benchmark.
HCRIS cost report · CAH economics engine
$ in thousands
Line itemFY23FY24FY25
Patient revenue54,96661,66868,953
Other operating revenue—1—
Total operating revenue54,96661,66968,953
Total operating expenses45,36548,43350,884
Operating income9,60113,23618,069
Operating margin %+17.5%+21.5%+26.2%
Grants & contributions5549101
Other non-operating, net4,1323,2613,830
Net income13,78816,54622,000
Net income %+23.3%+25.4%+30.3%
— = Not reported in source for that year.
HCRIS Worksheet G-3 / S-3 · $ thousands · FY21–FY25 · where other operating income is not reported, total operating revenue reflects net patient revenue alone · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding in nonoperating income

How it operates

quality & operational context · CMS public reporting

A 17-bed hospital running at 29% occupancy, where swing beds are 42% of the inpatient business, and 90% of patient revenue is outpatient.

The metrics this hospital type is judged on: care quality, patient experience, and scale. Each is labeled by provenance class and public source; descriptive context only, never a ranking or adequacy claim. Provenance labels: Reported value is copied from the named public source; Astrelis calculation is a formula applied to unchanged reported inputs, with the formula shown; Illustrative estimate is a benchmark gap, multiplier, or scenario — never a measurement.

Scale and flow
Occupancy
29.2%
Reported value2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average daily census
4.60
Reported value2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Staffed beds (acute)
17
Reported value2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Annual discharges
492
Reported value2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average length of stay
3 days
Reported value2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Cost per patient day
$30,397
Astrelis calculation2025
Astrelis calculation — total operating expense ÷ total patient days (HCRIS WS G-3 / S-3)
Cost per discharge (unadjusted)
$103,422
Astrelis calculation2025
Astrelis calculation — total operating expense ÷ discharges, NOT case-mix adjusted (adjusted discharges are not on the public filing set)
Swing-bed average daily census
3.36
Reported value2025
HCRIS WS S-3 L5–6
Swing-bed share of inpatient days
42.2%
Reported value2025
HCRIS WS S-3 (acute + swing days)
Outpatient share of patient revenue
90.5%
Reported value2025
HCRIS WS G-2 L28
How the care measures up
C. difficile infection (SIR)
0
No Different than National Benchmark
CMS-reported measure07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025
CMS Care Compare
Hospital-wide unplanned readmission
14.5%
No Different Than the National Rate
CMS-reported measure07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024
CMS Care Compare

Pricing

Pilot · FY25
Commercial rates vs Medicare
929%
Medicare baseline100%
Commercial negotiated rates929% · beyond chart bound
Commercial negotiated rates as a percent of Medicare rates, outpatient basket. Chart bound 300%; values beyond it are clipped at the bar edge and shown at their actual figure.
Hospital price files + Medicare rates

Directional indicator from public price files. Facility-specific rate positioning is the Commercial Pricing Study →

Trajectory

Cost-report basis · 5 reporting years
Operating margin
+14.9%+13.2%+17.5%+21.5%+26.2%FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
Days cash on hand
1 day0 days619 days578 days549 daysFY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

The county this hospital serves

DeKalb County, IL
Median household income
$69.0K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
15.9%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
4.8%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
13.6%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
18.0%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 7.2% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 19.2% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).

Illustrative advocacy scenario: what this hospital means to Dekalb County

Illustrative estimate · FY25 cost report
Direct annual spending
$50.9M
total operating expense · Reported value, not a local-capture estimate
Economic activity
$117.0M
direct spending × 2.30 · AHA national hospital economic activity report — a national hospital ratio, not a CAH or county figure · Illustrative estimate
Employment and labor income multipliers are from the National Center for Rural Health Works 2016 study of Critical Access Hospital economic impact (IMPLAN Type II, U.S. rural county populations); the economic-activity ratio is from the AHA national hospital economic activity report and describes U.S. hospitals as a whole; it is not a CAH-specific or county-specific figure. Applying any of these to an individual facility is an illustrative advocacy scenario, not a measurement: local capture depends on payroll residency, purchasing patterns, and county economic structure the sources do not observe. This facility is a critical access hospital, the NCRHW study population. Direct figures are reported values from the facility's HCRIS cost report. Want a defensible facility-specific figure? Request a Facility Economic Impact Study →
Medicare inpatient contribution marginFY24Astrelis calculation from reported HCRIS inputs

+52.9% (FY24).

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CAH Performance Benchmark

26.4 points above the cohort median — at current revenue, approximately $18.2M more operating income than the median rate.

(26.2% facility vs -0.2% peer median) = 26.4 points above the median × $69.0M revenue ≈ $18.2M more operating income than the median rate
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Commercial Pricing Study

Commercial rates run ≈ 9.29× the Medicare OPPS-equivalent on the measured basket (median across classified payers).

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How we calculated this

Peer pool matched on: bed-size band · rural status · state (progressively widened to national at a 20-peer floor).

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CAH Performance Benchmark: FY25 peer pool · n = 824 · conservative low band; acuity limits stated in the report.

Basis: line-level service basket · 22 classified commercial payers (82% of commercial volume classified) · pricing files captured 2026-07-19 · numerator: negotiated commercial allowed amounts (classified payers) · denominator: Medicare OPPS-equivalent for the same services · weighting: volume-weighted line-level outpatient service basket (CY2026 OPPS equivalent).

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