3801 E Hwy 98, Port Saint Joe, FL, 32456 · (850) 229-5600
Beds
19
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$24.0M
FY 2025
Net income
-$1.4M
Patient care margin -13.7%
Discharges
335
Occupancy 14.4%
Clinicians
194
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 | $24.0M | $27.3M | -13.7% | -$1.4M | 335 | $2.8M | 31.3% | 2.3% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 11% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.2% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.1% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.2% | US median 17.2% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 94% | US median 79% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
| Diagnosis group | Stays | Average charge | Medicare pays per stay | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 13 | $27,505.85 | $13,279.85 | $9,867.73 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
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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 | $21.5M | $26.3M | -22.4% | -$2.9M | 361 | $2.1M | 28.5% | 0.4% |
| 2023 | $19.5M | $43.3M | -122.2% | -$21.7M | 420 | $2.2M | 32.5% | 2.0% |
| 2022 | $19.7M | $25.8M | -30.6% | -$4.4M | 425 | $2.3M | 36.3% | 1.0% |
| 2021 | $17.6M | $23.5M | -33.1% | -$5.8M | 427 | $2.4M | 43.7% | 3.5% |
| 2020 | $12.4M | $20.8M | -67.7% | -$6.3M | 418 | $2.4M | 47.2% | 1.8% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 88% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 81% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 88% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 80% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 93% | US median 71% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 105 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 88% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 93% | US median 79% |
| Services |
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| Patients |
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| Medicare pays per service |
|---|
| All hospitals |
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| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 45 | 43 | $2,111.55 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 18 | 17 | $1,253.17 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 15 | 15 | $4,162.59 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 12 | 12 | $1,501.42 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5313 Level 3 Lower GI Procedures | - | - | - | $2,176.09 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $2,405.01 |
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.
Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Port Saint Joe, FL with 19 beds, part of Sacred Heart Health System and a 3-star overall rating.
Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf in Port Saint Joe, FL has 19 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report). It discharged 335 inpatients that year, with 14.4% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf reported net patient revenue of $24.0M and operating expenses of $27.3M, a margin on patient care of -13.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$1.4M (-5.5% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf is part of Sacred Heart Health System, a health system with 4 hospitals based in Gonzalez, FL. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings.
Yes, Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf provides emergency services.
194 Medicare clinicians list Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf had 13 Medicare inpatient stays in 1 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 193 (simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc) with 13 stays; Medicare paid $13,279.85 per stay on average, compared with $9,867.73 across all hospitals.