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Critical Access Hospital · Jordan, MT

GARFIELD COUNTY HEALTH CENTER

CCN 271310GARFIELD CountyGovernment - Local25 bedsLatest FY 2025
Historical record. CMS lists this CCN as terminated (other - provider status change). The facility continued under CCN 270779see the current profile. The financials below are the historical results reported under this number and are excluded from current peer comparisons and state counts.
Cost-report basis
HCRIS · as filed
Not audited by Astrelis
The read

A hospital in Jordan, MT. It ran an operating loss of 42.7% in FY25 on $2.6M of operating revenue. It held 111 days of cash on hand. Operating margin declined from -37.5% in FY21 to -42.7% in FY25, though it rose 12.2 points in the most recent year. Including nonoperating items, the all-in result was positive at 20.3%.

Operating margin · FY25
-42.7%
12.2 pts vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals
Days cash on hand · FY25
111d
all sources
81.8 days vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals
Total operating revenue · FY25
$2.6M
0.5 $M vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals
Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY25
+20.3%
43.0 pts vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals
One point of operating margin at GARFIELD COUNTY HEALTH CENTER is about $26K per year (1% of FY25 total operating revenue).

Where GARFIELD COUNTY HEALTH sits among Critical Access Hospitals

Operating margin · FY25 pool · n = 824 of 1,404 filed

Each point is one Critical Access 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 Critical Access Hospital median is -0.2%. Descriptive context only, not a ranking.

-20%-10%0%+10%+20%Critical Access Hospital median -0.24974129749702573%GARFIELD COUNTY -42.67503877141885%-20%0%+20%Critical Access Hospital median -0.24974129749702573%GARFIELD COUNTY -42.67503877141885%
One critical access hospitalGARFIELD COUNTYCritical 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 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.

Operating margin
-42.7% (FY25)
Operating income ÷ total operating revenue
HCRIS WS G-3
Total margin
+20.3% (FY25)
Net income ÷ total revenue incl. nonoperating
HCRIS WS G-3
Days cash on hand
111d (FY25)
Cash, investments & board-designated reserves ÷ daily operating expense (excl. depreciation)
HCRIS WS G / G-3
Current ratio
7.38× (FY25)
Total current assets ÷ current liabilities
HCRIS WS G
Equity financing ratio
60% (FY25)
Total net assets ÷ total assets
HCRIS WS G
Days in net patient A/R
33d (FY25)
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
HCRIS WS G / G-3
Medicare inpatient contribution margin
+0.2% (FY24)
Full comparison in the CAH Performance Benchmark.
HCRIS cost report · CAH economics engine
Medicare outpatient contribution margin
-3.8% (FY24)
Full comparison in the CAH Performance Benchmark.
HCRIS cost report · CAH economics engine
$ in thousands
Line itemFY23FY24FY25
Patient revenue2,2042,1862,643
Other operating revenue411
Total operating revenue2,2082,1872,644
Total operating expenses3,2073,3873,772
Operating income(999)(1,200)(1,128)
Operating margin %-45.2%-54.9%-42.7%
Grants & contributions3263491,040
Investment income151314
Other non-operating, net92101,034
Net income(649)(628)960
Net income %-25.4%-22.8%+20.3%
HCRIS Worksheet G-3 / S-3 · $ thousands · FY21–FY25 · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding in nonoperating income

How it operates

quality & operational context · CMS public reporting

A 25-bed hospital at 1% occupancy where swing beds are 98% of the inpatient business and 39% 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
0.7%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average daily census
0.17
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Staffed beds (acute)
25
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Annual discharges
16
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average length of stay
3.8d
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Swing-bed average daily census
10.68
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3 L5–6
Swing-bed share of inpatient days
98.5%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3 (acute + swing days)
Outpatient share of patient revenue
39.4%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS G-2 L28
How the care measures up
C. difficile infection (SIR)
Results are not available for this reporting period.
CMS-reported measure07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025
CMS Care Compare
Hospital-wide unplanned readmission
The number of cases/patients is too few to report.
CMS-reported measure07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024
CMS Care Compare

Trajectory

Cost-report basis · 5 reporting years
Operating margin
-37.5%-5.2%-45.2%-54.9%-42.7%FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
Days cash on hand
86 days199 days88 days29 days111 daysFY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

The county this hospital serves

GARFIELD County, MT
Median household income
$61.8K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
12.2%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
10.9%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
27.6%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
20.0%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 10.3% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 22.4% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).

What this hospital means to Garfield County

economic contribution · FY25 cost report
Direct annual spending
$3.8M
total operating expense · reported
Total economic output
$8.7M
× 2.30 output multiplier · estimate, upper bound for rural
Method: NCRHW 2016 study of critical access hospitals (IMPLAN Type II), employment × 1.34, earnings × 1.19; output × 2.30 (AHA national, upper bound for rural). Direct figures are reported values from the facility's HCRIS cost report; multiplied figures are estimates.

CAH Performance Benchmark$2,500Founding Edition

Where this facility is underperforming its matched peer cohort and what that gap is worth, measure by measure. Founding Edition: delivered within 30 days of eligibility confirmation, full refund if the published scope cannot be delivered.

Commercial Pricing Study$10,000CAH only, subject to data validation

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