8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814 · (301) 896-2576
Beds
253
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$390.3M
FY 2025
Net income
$27.9M
Patient care margin -7.0%
Discharges
11,534
Occupancy 68.0%
Clinicians
553
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 | $390.3M | $417.8M | -7.0% | $27.9M | 11,534 | $13.3M | 46.2% | 9.3% |
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 | 3.6% | US median 2.3% |
| Death rate for COPD patients | 9.6% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 10.3% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 11% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 2.8% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 16% | 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 | $362.9M | $390.6M | -7.6% | $29.2M | 12,216 | - | 48.6% | 8.4% |
| 2023 | $340.3M | $375.0M | -10.2% | $15.6M | 11,538 | - | 47.2% | 8.2% |
| 2022 | $337.7M | $357.1M | -5.7% | -$40.5M | 11,082 | - | 48.0% | 8.1% |
| 2021 | $319.1M | $334.1M | -4.7% | $73.7M | 11,485 | - | 49.5% | 7.4% |
| 2020 | $275.2M | $308.4M | -12.1% | $5.4M | 12,257 | $5.3M | 49.7% | 8.0% |
| 9.4% |
| US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate after heart bypass surgery | 11.6% | US median 10.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.2% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.6% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.2% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.2% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.9% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.13 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.42 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.32 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.81 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.24 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.82 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 82% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 78% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 61% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 78% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 81% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 83% | 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) | 224 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 16% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 61% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 98% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 21% | US median 74% |
| 169 |
| $12,625.60 |
| $9,670.48 |
| $7,681.44 |
| DRG 885 PSYCHOSES | 128 | $20,329.02 | $16,550.02 | $11,869.17 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 116 | $9,818.09 | $7,413.10 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 99 | $15,617.24 | $12,014.60 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 95 | $14,698.09 | $11,775.12 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 93 | $20,922.68 | $16,672.76 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 90 | $19,750.54 | $15,890.41 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 86 | $9,170.30 | $6,696.73 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 83 | $11,730.36 | $9,174.55 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 552 MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITHOUT MCC | 74 | $9,795.54 | $7,258.36 | $7,114.44 |
| DRG 603 CELLULITIS WITHOUT MCC | 69 | $8,876.28 | $6,171.17 | $6,446.25 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 68 | $12,842.12 | $10,031.07 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 470 MAJOR HIP AND KNEE JOINT REPLACEMENT OR REATTACHMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY WITHOUT MCC | 65 | $22,938.37 | $18,562.32 | $14,289.25 |
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.
Suburban Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Bethesda, MD with 253 beds, part of Johns Hopkins Health System and a 4-star overall rating.
Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD has 253 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 229 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 11,534 inpatients that year, with 68.0% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Suburban Hospital reported net patient revenue of $390.3M and operating expenses of $417.8M, a margin on patient care of -7.0%. After other income and expenses its net income was $27.9M (6.3% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Suburban Hospital is part of Johns Hopkins Health System, a health system with 6 hospitals based in Baltimore, MD. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Suburban Hospital has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 1 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Suburban Hospital provides emergency services.
553 Medicare clinicians list Suburban Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Hospitalist.
In 2024, Suburban Hospital had 5,148 Medicare inpatient stays in 138 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 652 stays; Medicare paid $17,165.83 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $52K in payments to Suburban Hospital as a teaching hospital ($3,160 general and $49K for research) from 5 companies.