Financial anchor year: FY24. Margin and revenue are as filed for FY24. Balance-sheet measures (current ratio, equity financing, days in A/R) use FY25, the latest filing whose balance sheet reconciled as filed. Days cash on hand is FY25, the most recent year that passed the display gate. Every tile below states its own fiscal year; nothing is carried forward or estimated.
The read
A hospital in Merrillville, IN. It ran an operating surplus of 3.5% in FY24 on $45.0M of operating revenue. It held 265 days of cash on hand in FY25, its most recent reported liquidity (95th percentile among Psychiatric hospitals on liquidity). Operating margin declined from 11.7% in FY21 to 3.5% in FY24.
Operating margin · FY24
+3.5%
▼ 5.0 pts vs FY23
vs Psychiatric hospitals47th pctl of 437 (FY24)
Days cash on hand · FY25
265d
all sources
▼ 51.1 days vs FY24
vs Psychiatric hospitals95th pctl of 376 (FY24)
Total operating revenue · FY25
$45.0M
▼ 1.3 $M vs FY24
vs Psychiatric hospitals80th pctl of 509 (FY24)
Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY24
+8.1%
▼ 0.6 pts vs FY23
vs Psychiatric hospitals52nd pctl of 434 (FY24)
This facility's newest settled year, FY25, has not yet reached pool validity: benchmarked against the FY24 pool (n=437).
One point of operating margin at REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER is about $450K per year (1% of FY25 total operating revenue).
Where REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH sits among Psychiatric hospitals
Operating margin · FY24 pool · n = 437 of 610 filed
Each point is one Psychiatric hospital in the national 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 Psychiatric hospital median is +4.8%. Descriptive context only, not a ranking.
This facility's newest settled year, FY25, has not yet reached pool validity: benchmarked against the FY24 pool (n=437).
One psychiatric hospitalREGIONAL MENTALPsychiatric 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 renders only when every input is reported in the filing; a year missing its core lines is not shown; a year whose balance sheet does not reconcile is labeled. Not audited by Astrelis.
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
HCRIS WS G / G-3
$ in thousands
Line item
FY23
FY24
FY25
Patient revenue
23,777
22,934
20,656
Other operating revenue
22,365
23,416
24,366
Total operating revenue
46,142
46,350
45,022
Total operating expenses
42,227
44,714
46,563
Operating income
3,915
1,636
(1,542)
Operating margin %
+8.5%
+3.5%
-3.4%
Investment income
2,344
—
—
Other non-operating, net
(2,046)
2,448
2,632
Net income
4,213
4,084
1,090
Net income %
+9.1%
+8.4%
+2.3%
HCRIS Worksheet G-3 / S-3 · $ thousands · FY21–FY25 · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding in nonoperating income
FY25 operating and total margins are not shown: they compute from near-zero net patient revenue, so the ratio is not meaningful (display gate; statement values unchanged).
How it operates
quality & operational context · CMS public reporting
A 16-bed hospital at 24% occupancy 94% of patient revenue is outpatient.
The metrics this hospital type is judged on: care quality, patient experience, and scale. Each is labeled by evidence class and public source; descriptive context only, never a ranking or adequacy claim.
Scale and flow
Occupancy
24.4%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average daily census
3.91
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Staffed beds (acute)
16
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Annual discharges
258
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average length of stay
5.5d
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Outpatient share of patient revenue
94.0%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS G-2 L28
How the care measures up
No public quality measures are reported for this facility in the current Care Compare refresh.
Trajectory
Cost-report basis · 5 reporting years
Operating margin
Days cash on hand
The county this hospital serves
LAKE County, IN
Median household income
$69.0K
vs $82.1K US
Poverty rate
14.6%
vs 12.5% US
Uninsured
6.8%
vs 8.6% US
Age 65+
17.4%
vs 16.8% US
Fair or poor health
22.4%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 11.6% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 24.8% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).
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