677 Church Street, Marietta, GA, 30060 · (770) 793-5000
Beds
642
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$1.86B
FY 2025
Net income
$405.0M
Patient care margin 11.2%
Discharges
47,023
Occupancy 103.5%
Clinicians
1,855
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 | $1.86B | $1.65B | 11.2% | $405.0M | 47,023 | $130.4M | 21.7% | 3.6% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate after heart bypass surgery | 2.1% | US median 2.3% |
| Death rate for COPD patients | 7.2% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 9.9% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 9.4% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 2.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.6% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients |
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 | $1.71B | $1.49B | 12.8% | $382.4M | 43,121 | $109.1M | 21.9% | 4.4% |
| 2023 | $1.50B | $1.27B | 15.3% | $377.2M | 39,868 | $106.6M | 22.9% | 6.9% |
| 2022 | $1.32B | $1.15B | 12.7% | $307.2M | 35,780 | $102.9M | 23.0% | 5.8% |
| 2021 | $1.22B | $1.04B | 14.6% | $351.1M | 36,638 | $98.1M | 25.3% | 6.4% |
| 2020 | $1.14B | $971.5M | 14.9% | $320.6M | 37,857 | $98.5M | 28.1% | 7.6% |
| 9.6% |
| US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate after heart bypass surgery | 12% | US median 10.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.9% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.9% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20.5% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.6% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.00 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.34 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.46 | US median 0.48 · better |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.35 | US median 0.72 · better |
| Surgical site infections after hysterectomy (ratio to expected) | 1.22 | US median 0.81 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.81 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.19 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 75% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 73% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 55% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 65% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 67% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 69% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 1% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 262 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 | 88% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 85% | US median 79% |
| 218 |
| $93,212.40 |
| $14,888.86 |
| $12,667.88 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 180 | $87,053.53 | $11,710.53 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 158 | $56,950.47 | $10,708.72 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 146 | $72,251.51 | $9,135.16 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 143 | $80,531.87 | $9,604.58 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 139 | $127,440.27 | $17,356.33 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 064 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH MCC | 138 | $128,938.98 | $16,545.42 | $15,695.20 |
| DRG 274 PERCUTANEOUS AND OTHER INTRACARDIAC PROCEDURES WITHOUT MCC | 132 | $148,356.82 | $26,259.20 | $24,748.54 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 125 | $49,149.75 | $8,687.34 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 125 | $323,946.98 | $42,905.27 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 123 | $38,573.20 | $7,575.00 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 120 | $46,883.22 | $7,719.54 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 312 SYNCOPE AND COLLAPSE | 113 | $50,372.54 | $8,067.91 | $6,636.32 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 1,307 | 1,025 | $493.71 | $502.15 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 484 | 457 | $1,476.00 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 478 | 472 | $1,955.79 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 356 | 356 | $2,148.99 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 283 | 263 | $3,789.68 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 269 | 263 | $4,178.01 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 256 | 245 | $1,163.25 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 225 | 205 | $1,366.34 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 197 | 193 | $10,355.74 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 191 | 188 | $4,740.00 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 162 | 135 | $2,514.58 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5362 Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 147 | 146 | $7,751.15 | $8,164.45 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
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.
Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Marietta, GA with 642 beds, part of WellStar Health System and a 4-star overall rating.
Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center in Marietta, GA has 642 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 633 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 47,023 inpatients that year, with 103.5% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $1.86B and operating expenses of $1.65B, a margin on patient care of 11.2%. After other income and expenses its net income was $405.0M (19.7% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center is part of WellStar Health System, a health system with 12 hospitals based in Marietta, GA. It is a government-owned hospital.
Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 3 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center provides emergency services.
1,855 Medicare clinicians list Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner.
In 2024, Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center had 8,238 Medicare inpatient stays in 196 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 512 stays; Medicare paid $16,988.52 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $169K in payments to Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center as a teaching hospital ($25K general and $143K for research) from 8 companies.