Financial anchor year: FY23. Margin and revenue are as filed for FY23. 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 Lake Geneva, WI. It ran an operating surplus of 7.6% in FY23 on $657.2M of operating revenue. Only a single comparable reporting year is available, so trend context is limited.
Operating margin · FY23
+7.6%
vs Critical Access Hospitals75th pctl of 824 (FY25)
Days cash on hand · FY25
Not available
all sources
vs Critical Access Hospitals—
Total operating revenue · FY24
$657.2M
vs Critical Access Hospitals100th pctl of 833 (FY25)
Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY23
+5.3%
vs Critical Access Hospitals44th pctl of 824 (FY25)
One point of operating margin at MERCY WALWORTH HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER is about $6.6M per year (1% of FY24 total operating revenue).
Where MERCY WALWORTH HOSPITAL 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.
One critical access hospitalMERCY WALWORTHCritical 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.
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
HCRIS WS G / G-3
Medicare inpatient contribution margin
-115.6% (FY24)
Full comparison in the CAH Performance Benchmark.
HCRIS cost report · CAH economics engine
Medicare outpatient contribution margin
-438.1% (FY24)
Full comparison in the CAH Performance Benchmark.
HCRIS cost report · CAH economics engine
$ in thousands
Line item
FY22
FY23
FY24
Patient revenue
129,903
616,418
(141,885)
Other operating revenue
23,501
20,910
799,042
Total operating revenue
153,404
637,328
657,157
Total operating expenses
569,531
589,110
603,715
Operating income
(416,127)
48,218
53,442
Operating margin %
-271.3%
+7.6%
+8.1%
Other non-operating, net
460,089
(14,676)
0
Net income
43,962
33,542
53,442
Net income %
+7.2%
+5.4%
+8.1%
HCRIS Worksheet G-3 / S-3 · $ thousands · FY21–FY25 · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding in nonoperating income
FY21, FY22, FY24 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
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
35.6%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average daily census
7.49
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Staffed beds (acute)
21
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Annual discharges
1,006
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average length of stay
2.7d
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
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
14.7%
No Different Than the National Rate
CMS-reported measure07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024
CMS Care Compare
Trajectory
Cost-report basis · 5 reporting years
Operating margin
Days cash on hand
The county this hospital serves
WALWORTH County, WI
Median household income
$77.4K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
9.7%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
5.7%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
19.2%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
16.3%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 6.6% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 17.1% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).
What this hospital means to Walworth County
economic contribution · FY25 cost report
Direct annual spending
$79.8M
total operating expense · reported
Total economic output
$183.5M
× 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.
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