102 E Culver Rd, Knox, IN, 46534 · (574) 772-6231
Beds
14
FY 2025
Star rating
1 of 5
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$17.9M
FY 2025
Net income
-$1.2M
Patient care margin -10.7%
Discharges
329
Occupancy 21.7%
Clinicians
114
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 | $17.9M | $19.8M | -10.7% | -$1.2M | 329 | $539K | 25.7% | 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 COPD patients | 7.5% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 12.8% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.3% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.4% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.5% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22.3% |
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 | $17.2M | $16.0M | 6.9% | $976K | 311 | $539K | 31.1% | 0.5% |
| 2023 | $17.6M | $13.8M | 21.3% | $3.8M | 398 | $424K | 36.9% | 2.0% |
| 2022 | $18.6M | $14.6M | 21.4% | $4.8M | 400 | $411K | 43.3% | 0.6% |
| 2021 | $18.1M | $13.6M | 24.9% | $5.7M | 473 | $497K | 37.9% | 1.8% |
| 2020 | $16.1M | $13.2M | 18.3% | $5.0M | 395 | $488K | 46.7% | 3.3% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.1% | US median 17.2% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 79% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 89% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 64% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 85% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 95% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 77% | 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) | 114 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 13% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 75% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 21% | 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 | 45 | 40 | $1,846.39 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 28 | 24 | $1,595.89 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | - | - | - | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | - | - | - | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $1,219.56 |
| 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.
Northwest Health - Starke is a for-profit short-term acute care hospital in Knox, IN with 14 beds, part of Community Health Systems and a 1-star overall rating.
Northwest Health - Starke in Knox, IN has 14 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 53 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 329 inpatients that year, with 21.7% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), Northwest Health - Starke reported net patient revenue of $17.9M and operating expenses of $19.8M, a margin on patient care of -10.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$1.2M (-6.2% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Northwest Health - Starke is part of Community Health Systems (listed company, ticker CYH), a health system with 60 hospitals based in Franklin, TN. It is a for-profit hospital.
Northwest Health - Starke has an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings.
Yes, Northwest Health - Starke provides emergency services.
114 Medicare clinicians list Northwest Health - Starke as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology.
In 2024, Northwest Health - Starke had 29 Medicare inpatient stays in 2 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 190 (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with mcc) with 15 stays; Medicare paid $8,783.20 per stay on average, compared with $8,466.56 across all hospitals.