2301 Highway 71, Spirit Lake, IA, 51360 · (712) 336-1230
Beds
44
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 5 of 5
Net patient revenue
$68.8M
FY 2025
Net income
$5.2M
Patient care margin 0.2%
Discharges
1,014
Occupancy 22.7%
Clinicians
206
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 | $68.8M | $68.7M | 0.2% | $5.2M | 1,014 | $1.2M | 47.5% | 13.2% |
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 | 9.2% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 17% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.8% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 19.7% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 12.5% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20% |
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 | $66.1M | $65.1M | 1.5% | $5.2M | 1,031 | $838K | 52.5% | 11.2% |
| 2023 | $56.8M | $60.1M | -5.9% | -$104K | 1,133 | $775K | 55.1% | 11.3% |
| 2022 | $55.3M | $56.7M | -2.4% | $2.9M | 1,109 | $1.0M | 53.1% | 12.4% |
| 2021 | $53.6M | $54.9M | -2.4% | $5.8M | 1,102 | $762K | 56.6% | 10.5% |
| 2020 | $43.2M | $47.2M | -9.3% | $3.3M | 930 | $579K | 54.6% | 18.0% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.7% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.9% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 6.5% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.12 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 85% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 83% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 5 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 64% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 80% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 80% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 81% | 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) | 125 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 | 71% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 89% | US median 79% |
| 21 |
| $18,619.67 |
| $13,005.05 |
| $15,524.21 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 19 | $14,777.63 | $4,702.89 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 19 | $19,755.32 | $8,394.05 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 16 | $20,809.63 | $8,083.75 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 16 | $14,790.94 | $4,523.75 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 552 MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $16,159.17 | $5,689.42 | $7,114.44 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 11 | $39,169.64 | $13,490.36 | $15,801.33 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 251 | 157 | $1,587.08 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 181 | 163 | $1,865.55 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 66 | 65 | $9,613.14 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 47 | 46 | $4,875.87 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 44 | 40 | $1,292.65 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 37 | 37 | $3,932.54 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 34 | 34 | $2,206.08 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 21 | 21 | $14,277.45 | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 20 | 19 | $1,315.92 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 17 | 17 | $1,104.99 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 11 | - | $465.56 | $502.15 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | - | - | - | $2,629.24 |
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.
Lakes Regional Healthcare is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Spirit Lake, IA with 44 beds, part of Avera Health and a 2-star overall rating.
Lakes Regional Healthcare in Spirit Lake, IA has 44 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 49 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 1,014 inpatients that year, with 22.7% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Lakes Regional Healthcare reported net patient revenue of $68.8M and operating expenses of $68.7M, a margin on patient care of 0.2%. After other income and expenses its net income was $5.2M (7.0% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Lakes Regional Healthcare is part of Avera Health, a health system with 36 hospitals based in Sioux Falls, SD. It is a government-owned hospital.
Lakes Regional Healthcare has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 5 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 0 death rate measures are better and 1 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Lakes Regional Healthcare provides emergency services.
206 Medicare clinicians list Lakes Regional Healthcare as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Physician Assistant.
In 2024, Lakes Regional Healthcare had 169 Medicare inpatient stays in 9 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 470 (major hip and knee joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity without mcc) with 34 stays; Medicare paid $12,093.47 per stay on average, compared with $14,289.25 across all hospitals.