A health center in TN. It ran an operating loss of 51.0% in FY23 on $44.9M of operating revenue. Operating margin improved from -68.0% in FY21 to -51.0% in FY23. Including nonoperating items, the all-in result was positive at 15.8%.
Days cash on hand
Not available
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Total operating revenue · FY23
$44.9M
▲ 10.9 $M vs FY22
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Operating margin · FY23
-51.0%
▲ 34.4 pts vs FY22
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Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY23
+15.8%
▼ 6.1 pts vs FY22
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Where CHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEMS sits among health centers
Operating margin · FY23 pool · n = 1,112 of 4,110 filed
Each point is one health center 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 health center median is -36.6%. Descriptive context only, not a ranking.
One health centerCHEROKEE HEALTHhealth center median
This site belongs to Cherokee Health Systems (grant H80CS00309), which operates 4 FQHC sites. UDS reports at the organization level: the figures below describe the whole organization and are repeated on each of its site pages, never summed per site.
Patients
66,766
unduplicated, organization-wide · UDS Table 4
Medical visits
Not reported
organization-wide clinic visits
Medical staffing
Masked
staffing is masked under H80 confidentiality rules: reported for roughly 40% of centers
Cost per patient
Consent-gated
Table 9D financials are consent-gated (FOIA Exemption 4): released only for centers that consent, about half in 2024. Suppressed, never zeroed.
Payer mix (share of patients)
Medicaid 38.4% · Medicare 12.9% · Uninsured 24.9% · Private 22.3% · Other public 1.4%
Clinical quality vs the national UDS median
Blood-pressure control
65.1%
national UDS median 66.6%
HRSA UDS 2024
Diabetes HbA1c > 9% (lower is better)
29.1%
national UDS median 26.1%
HRSA UDS 2024
Cervical cancer screening
47.4%
national UDS median 53.0%
HRSA UDS 2024
Breast cancer screening
52.2%
national UDS median 53.4%
HRSA UDS 2024
Colorectal cancer screening
33.1%
national UDS median 42.0%
HRSA UDS 2024
Depression screening & follow-up
61.5%
national UDS median 75.8%
HRSA UDS 2024
Tobacco cessation intervention
90.0%
national UDS median 86.8%
HRSA UDS 2024
Adult BMI screening & follow-up
87.7%
national UDS median 71.0%
HRSA UDS 2024
Childhood immunization status
40.1%
national UDS median 26.8%
HRSA UDS 2024
Appendix: the Medicare cost-report view
$ thousands · HCRIS cost-report basis · as filed, QA-gated
Read this first: this is a partial, Medicare-centric view. Health centers are grant-funded: HRSA Section 330 grants, Medicaid, and sliding-fee revenue dominate their finance and are not on this cost report, which carries only an income statement. A thin or negative cost-report margin here is not whole-organization distress; the organization-level picture is the UDS section above.
Ratios tell you how this health center 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
-51.0% (FY23)
Operating income ÷ total operating revenue · Medicare cost-report scope, not the organization's full financials
HCRIS WS G-3
Total margin
+15.8% (FY23)
Net income ÷ total revenue incl. nonoperating · Medicare cost-report scope, not the organization's full financials
HCRIS WS G-3
Days cash on hand
Not reported in this filing
Cash & investments ÷ daily operating expense
HCRIS WS G / G-3
Current ratio
Not reported in this filing
Total current assets ÷ current liabilities
HCRIS WS G
Equity financing ratio
Not reported in this filing
Total net assets ÷ total assets
HCRIS WS G
Days in net patient A/R
Not reported in this filing
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
HCRIS WS G / G-3
$ in thousands
Line item
FY21
FY22
FY23
Patient revenue
35,823
33,999
44,913
Total operating revenue
35,823
33,999
44,913
Total operating expenses
60,170
63,022
67,802
Operating income
(24,346)
(29,023)
(22,889)
Operating margin %
-68.0%
-85.4%
-51.0%
Other non-operating, net
25,055
46,731
35,644
Net income
709
17,708
12,755
Net income %
+1.2%
+21.9%
+15.8%
HCRIS CMS-224 cost report · $ thousands · FY21–FY23 · Medicare cost-report scope, not the organization’s full financials · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding
A condensed balance sheet is not shown for this health center: the public cost report does not carry substantive balance-sheet detail (assets, liabilities, and net assets that reconcile) for this provider. The income statement and ratio exhibit above are the reliable financial view here. We lead with those rather than render a hollow table.
How it operates
quality & operational context · CMS public reporting
The metrics this health center 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.
Cost per visit ($, Medicare scope)
171.94
Verified fact2023
HCRIS CMS-224
Total visits (Medicare scope)
84,274
Verified fact2023
HCRIS CMS-224
Trajectory
Cost-report basis · 3 reporting years
Operating margin
Days cash on hand
The county this health center serves
Location, TN · metro, under 250K
Median household income
$52.8K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
17.2%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
13.6%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
17.9%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
25.4%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 11.8% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 27.9% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).
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