200 Med Center Drive, Fort Payne, AL, 35968 · (256) 845-3150
Beds
91
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$64.6M
FY 2025
Net income
-$4.7M
Patient care margin -25.1%
Discharges
2,301
Occupancy 23.7%
Clinicians
156
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $64.6M | $80.8M | -25.1% | -$4.7M | 2,301 | $371K | 27.5% | 17.9% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 10.6% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 11.4% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 14.6% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 5% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 22.9% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.2% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $52.0M | $67.1M | -28.9% | -$13.7M | 2,537 | $3.6M | 24.7% | 20.9% |
| 2023 | $50.3M | $58.3M | -15.9% | -$6.3M | 2,556 | $3.6M | 24.0% | 21.9% |
| 2022 | $57.5M | $58.5M | -1.8% | $1.4M | 2,440 | $3.4M | 29.0% | 19.4% |
| 2021 | $49.5M | $53.7M | -8.5% | $3.5M | 2,761 | $3.3M | 31.7% | 25.5% |
| 2020 | $51.7M | $53.2M | -2.9% | -$839K | 3,204 | $2.9M | 32.3% | 24.0% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.1% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22.2% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.5% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.6% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.02 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.35 | US median 0.28 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 1.38 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 80% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 80% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 60% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 62% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 58% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 59% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 2% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 164 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 15% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 93% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 69% | US median 79% |
| 25 |
| $170,252.04 |
| $11,026.80 |
| $14,289.25 |
| DRG 057 DEGENERATIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 21 | $59,597.57 | $9,098.24 | $11,625.30 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 18 | $33,547.44 | $7,811.61 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 16 | $52,226.31 | $8,620.31 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 637 DIABETES WITH MCC | 16 | $33,077.06 | $10,287.94 | $11,464.10 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 14 | $46,755.07 | $10,876.86 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 885 PSYCHOSES | 14 | $84,090.21 | $8,998.00 | $11,869.17 |
| DRG 682 RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 13 | $36,949.54 | $9,515.46 | $11,457.18 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $42,441.75 | $6,269.33 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 12 | $49,936.42 | $6,197.50 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 522 HIP REPLACEMENT WITH PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS OF HIP FRACTURE WITHOUT MCC | 11 | $181,163.09 | $13,796.00 | $15,768.13 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 62 | 60 | $1,310.31 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 60 | 60 | $1,954.37 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 41 | 29 | $1,610.94 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 31 | 31 | $4,026.77 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 25 | 24 | $4,801.54 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 24 | 24 | $1,904.50 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 17 | 16 | $2,096.78 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 17 | 14 | $1,349.48 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 16 | 16 | $1,129.95 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 16 | 15 | $1,986.01 | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 14 | 13 | $9,899.10 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 12 | 12 | $1,123.32 | $1,196.16 |
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Dekalb Regional Medical Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Fort Payne, AL with 91 beds, part of Huntsville Hospital Health System and a 2-star overall rating.
Dekalb Regional Medical Center in Fort Payne, AL has 91 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 134 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 2,301 inpatients that year, with 23.7% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), Dekalb Regional Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $64.6M and operating expenses of $80.8M, a margin on patient care of -25.1%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$4.7M (-6.2% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Dekalb Regional Medical Center is part of Huntsville Hospital Health System, a health system with 9 hospitals based in Huntsville, AL. It is a government-owned hospital.
Dekalb Regional Medical Center has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Dekalb Regional Medical Center provides emergency services.
156 Medicare clinicians list Dekalb Regional Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Dekalb Regional Medical Center had 274 Medicare inpatient stays in 13 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 67 stays; Medicare paid $12,892.66 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.