204 N 4th Ave E, Newton, IA, 50208 · (641) 792-1273
Beds
48
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$30.9M
FY 2025
Net income
-$207K
Patient care margin -7.3%
Discharges
610
Occupancy 14.3%
Clinicians
195
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 | $30.9M | $33.1M | -7.3% | -$207K | 610 | $764K | 31.3% | 9.1% |
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 | 12.3% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.5% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 16.5% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 12.6% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.3% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 19.9% |
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 | $37.2M | $40.6M | -9.3% | -$1.6M | 661 | $849K | 38.4% | 15.4% |
| 2023 | $34.5M | $40.6M | -17.4% | -$3.7M | 660 | $656K | 39.5% | 20.5% |
| 2022 | $36.9M | $43.9M | -18.9% | -$5.1M | 696 | $523K | 41.9% | 17.1% |
| 2021 | $34.5M | $38.5M | -11.7% | -$2.6M | 617 | $565K | 40.4% | 15.5% |
| 2020 | $30.0M | $34.9M | -16.2% | -$859K | 686 | $1.1M | 37.3% | 17.5% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.9% | US median 17.2% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 81% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 83% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 49% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 68% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 69% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 58% | 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) | 155 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 21% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 61% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 64% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 75% | US median 74% |
| 11 |
| $24,781.09 |
| $8,336.09 |
| $9,867.73 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 99 | 68 | $1,274.63 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 79 | 73 | $1,871.81 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 79 | 52 | $1,572.70 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 18 | 17 | $1,092.26 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 16 | 16 | $9,650.75 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 15 | 15 | $4,555.41 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | - | - | - | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5414 Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures | - | - | - | $2,389.24 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $1,219.56 |
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.
Mercyone Newton Medical Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Newton, IA with 48 beds, part of Trinity Health and a 4-star overall rating.
Mercyone Newton Medical Center in Newton, IA has 48 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 68 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 610 inpatients that year, with 14.3% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Mercyone Newton Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $30.9M and operating expenses of $33.1M, a margin on patient care of -7.3%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$207K (-0.6% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Mercyone Newton Medical Center is part of Trinity Health, a health system with 62 hospitals based in Livonia, MI. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Mercyone Newton Medical Center has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings.
Yes, Mercyone Newton Medical Center provides emergency services.
195 Medicare clinicians list Mercyone Newton Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Diagnostic Radiology.
In 2024, Mercyone Newton Medical Center had 77 Medicare inpatient stays in 3 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 48 stays; Medicare paid $12,728.83 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.