126 Hospital Ave, Ozark, AL, 36360 · (334) 774-2601
Beds
77
FY 2025
Star rating
Not rated
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$37.0M
FY 2025
Net income
-$2.3M
Patient care margin -22.8%
Discharges
1,128
Occupancy 24.7%
Clinicians
127
Medicare clinicians who work here
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 | $37.0M | $45.5M | -22.8% | -$2.3M | 1,128 | $2.2M | 18.7% | 22.6% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 6.3% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.8% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.8% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20.6% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.9% | US median 17.2% |
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.
| 2024 | $35.0M | $42.1M | -20.2% | -$269K | 1,236 | $2.6M | 17.4% | 20.1% |
| 2023 | $33.8M | $40.0M | -18.2% | $911K | 1,181 | $2.5M | 16.9% | 26.3% |
| 2022 | $33.5M | $39.7M | -18.4% | $1.8M | 1,228 | $4.4M | 23.1% | 18.3% |
| 2021 | $38.5M | $40.0M | -3.9% | $7.7M | 1,324 | $1.2M | 23.9% | 17.0% |
| 2020 | $34.2M | $42.5M | -24.4% | $3.0M | 1,221 | $2.7M | 25.0% | 16.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.16 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.39 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 82% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 77% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 78% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 72% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 84% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 73% | 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) | 148 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 11% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 53% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 53% | US median 79% |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 156 | 137 | $1,710.75 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5153 Level 3 Airway Endoscopy | 23 | 23 | $1,059.48 | $1,264.08 |
| APC 5465 Level 5 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures | 18 | 18 | $22,413.04 | $26,719.00 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5165 Level 5 ENT Procedures | - | - | - | $4,436.36 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5223 Level 3 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures | - | - | - | $8,569.01 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5313 Level 3 Lower GI Procedures | - | - | - | $2,176.09 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,635.67 |
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.
Dale Medical Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Ozark, AL with 77 beds.
Dale Medical Center in Ozark, AL has 77 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 89 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 1,128 inpatients that year, with 24.7% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Dale Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $37.0M and operating expenses of $45.5M, a margin on patient care of -22.8%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$2.3M (-5.2% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Dale Medical Center is not part of a multi-hospital health system in the official ownership records. It is a government-owned hospital (Government (hospital district)).
Dale Medical Center has no overall star rating, usually because it reports too few quality measures (for example small, specialty or federal hospitals).
Yes, Dale Medical Center provides emergency services.
127 Medicare clinicians list Dale Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Family Practice.
In 2024, Dale Medical Center had 39 Medicare inpatient stays in 2 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 885 (psychoses) with 27 stays; Medicare paid $9,583.63 per stay on average, compared with $11,869.17 across all hospitals.