1000 N Westmoreland Road, Lake Forest, IL, 60045 · (847) 234-5600
Beds
140
FY 2025
Star rating
5 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$600.0M
FY 2025
Net income
$26.3M
Patient care margin -4.6%
Discharges
13,421
Occupancy 105.2%
Clinicians
1,915
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 | $600.0M | $627.6M | -4.6% | $26.3M | 13,421 | $22.8M | 34.8% | 4.3% |
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 | 6.4% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 11% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 5.7% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 2.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 10.1% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 9.2% | US median 11.6% |
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 | $564.6M | $583.3M | -3.3% | -$1.8M | 13,281 | $17.1M | 34.5% | 5.0% |
| 2023 | $494.3M | $562.6M | -13.8% | -$20.1M | 13,263 | $12.7M | 35.5% | 4.2% |
| 2022 | $452.7M | $519.8M | -14.8% | -$16.6M | 10,684 | $16.5M | 35.5% | 4.2% |
| 2021 | $418.4M | $481.8M | -15.2% | -$21.0M | 11,233 | $14.3M | 33.6% | 4.6% |
| 2020 | $357.5M | $440.1M | -23.1% | -$22.5M | 9,503 | $17.9M | 34.2% | 7.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 18.4% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.6% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 19.6% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6.2% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.6% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.2% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.08 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.17 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 1.17 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 1.31 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 1.91 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 80% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 79% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 63% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 75% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 73% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 78% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 3% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 221 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 14% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 60% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 95% | US median 79% |
| 124 |
| $83,691.02 |
| $12,380.23 |
| $12,667.88 |
| DRG 286 CIRCULATORY DISORDERS EXCEPT AMI, WITH CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION WITH MCC | 91 | $123,222.87 | $16,181.34 | $17,632.75 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 65 | $33,880.51 | $5,572.23 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 59 | $52,081.31 | $7,213.15 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 58 | $56,279.12 | $11,574.71 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 287 CIRCULATORY DISORDERS EXCEPT AMI, WITH CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION WITHOUT MCC | 56 | $71,079.82 | $7,872.73 | $7,565.66 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 55 | $53,074.62 | $9,799.20 | $10,642.23 |
| DRG 309 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS WITH CC | 53 | $36,716.98 | $5,199.64 | $5,247.13 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 52 | $43,860.08 | $8,051.23 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 178 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH CC | 51 | $48,734.04 | $6,831.39 | $7,278.86 |
| DRG 603 CELLULITIS WITHOUT MCC | 51 | $41,396.41 | $6,263.35 | $6,446.25 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 50 | $35,295.62 | $5,555.76 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 48 | $39,434.29 | $5,156.56 | $5,829.71 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 1,126 | 1,040 | $2,038.00 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 458 | 290 | $1,752.06 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 456 | 404 | $1,052.75 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 217 | 201 | $1,435.21 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 199 | 196 | $2,210.52 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 176 | 166 | $10,770.03 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 167 | 131 | $2,621.15 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 165 | 76 | $1,434.61 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | 151 | 133 | $2,549.27 | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 150 | 144 | $2,380.60 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 128 | 119 | $3,829.01 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 105 | 99 | $1,971.88 | $2,141.49 |
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.
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Lake Forest, IL with 140 beds, part of Northwestern Medicine and a 5-star overall rating.
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, IL has 140 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 168 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 13,421 inpatients that year, with 105.2% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-08-31), Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital reported net patient revenue of $600.0M and operating expenses of $627.6M, a margin on patient care of -4.6%. After other income and expenses its net income was $26.3M (4.0% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital is part of Northwestern Medicine, a health system with 9 hospitals based in Chicago, IL. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital has an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 4 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 4 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital provides emergency services.
1,915 Medicare clinicians list Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant.
In 2024, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital had 2,858 Medicare inpatient stays in 98 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 335 stays; Medicare paid $14,858.90 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $623K in payments to Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital as a teaching hospital ($10K general and $613K for research) from 3 companies.