A hospital in Whiteville, NC. It ran an operating surplus of 18.0% in FY25 on $163.5M of operating revenue. It held 214 days of cash on hand (85th percentile among Rural PPS hospitals on liquidity). Only a single comparable reporting year is available, so trend context is limited.
Operating margin · FY25
+18.0%
▲ 7.7 pts vs FY24
vs Rural PPS hospitals91st pctl of 387 (FY24)
Days cash on hand · FY25
214d
all sources
▲ 44.5 days vs FY24
vs Rural PPS hospitals85th pctl of 376 (FY24)
Total operating revenue · FY25
$163.5M
▲ 25.1 $M vs FY24
vs Rural PPS hospitals74th pctl of 393 (FY24)
Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY25
+21.6%
▲ 6.9 pts vs FY24
vs Rural PPS hospitals94th pctl of 387 (FY24)
This facility's newest settled year, FY25, has not yet reached pool validity: benchmarked against the FY24 pool (n=387).
One point of operating margin at COLUMBUS REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM is about $1.6M per year (1% of FY25 total operating revenue).
Where COLUMBUS REGIONAL HEALTHCARE sits among Rural PPS hospitals
Operating margin · FY24 pool · n = 387 of 418 filed
Each point is one Rural PPS 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 Rural PPS hospital median is -0.9%. 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=387).
One rural pps hospitalCOLUMBUS REGIONALRural PPS 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
112,541
137,291
163,354
Other operating revenue
1,306
1,077
143
Total operating revenue
113,847
138,368
163,497
Total operating expenses
110,062
124,156
134,102
Operating income
3,785
14,212
29,395
Operating margin %
+3.3%
+10.3%
+18.0%
Grants & contributions
62
5
69
Investment income
1,930
4,844
4,374
Other non-operating, net
2,551
2,334
3,173
Net income
8,328
21,395
37,011
Net income %
+7.0%
+14.7%
+21.6%
HCRIS Worksheet G-3 / S-3 · $ thousands · FY20–FY25 · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding in nonoperating income
How it operates
quality & operational context · CMS public reporting
A 144-bed hospital at 31% occupancy 72% 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
30.7%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average daily census
44.32
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Staffed beds (acute)
144
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Annual discharges
3,789
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average length of stay
4.3d
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Outpatient share of patient revenue
71.9%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS G-2 L28
Total FTEs
506.60
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3 Pt II
Contract labor share of labor cost
19.8%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3 Pt V
Who it serves
Total unreimbursed & uncompensated care
$4.5M
Verified fact2023
HCRIS WS S-10 line 31
How the care measures up
C. difficile infection (SIR)
0.318
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
Medicare spending per beneficiary
1.01
CMS-reported measure01/01/2024 to 12/31/2024
CMS Care Compare
Patient-safety composite (PSI-90)
1.068607
CMS-reported measure07/01/2022 to 06/30/2024
CMS Care Compare
Trajectory
Cost-report basis · 6 reporting years
Operating margin
Days cash on hand
The county this hospital serves
COLUMBUS County, NC · nonmetro, urban 5–20K, metro-adjacent
Median household income
$48.2K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
18.8%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
13.6%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
20.4%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
23.6%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 16.5% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 38.1% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).
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). This hospital is not a critical access hospital. No published multiplier specific to its type was used, so the CAH ratios are applied unchanged and every multiplied figure here should be read as an upper-bound estimate, not a measurement of this facility. Direct figures are reported values from the facility's HCRIS cost report; multiplied figures are estimates.
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