106 Bow Street, Elkton, MD, 21921 · (410) 392-7009
Beds
124
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$213.3M
FY 2025
Net income
$9.1M
Patient care margin 1.5%
Discharges
6,268
Occupancy 68.6%
Clinicians
681
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 | $213.3M | $210.1M | 1.5% | $9.1M | 6,268 | $7.2M | 25.6% | 8.8% |
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 | 9.1% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 13% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 11.1% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.9% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 15.5% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 8.8% | 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 | $210.6M | $193.2M | 8.3% | $3.1M | 6,932 | $2.6M | 45.4% | 7.5% |
| 2023 | $184.1M | $192.6M | -4.6% | -$13.5M | 21,398 | $6.6M | 40.4% | 8.0% |
| 2022 | $184.1M | $201.3M | -9.3% | -$22.1M | 6,583 | $7.1M | 46.2% | 4.9% |
| 2021 | $180.1M | $167.5M | 7.0% | $28.0M | 4,506 | $45.7M | 48.0% | 2.4% |
| 2020 | $155.5M | $168.3M | -8.2% | -$6.6M | 4,419 | - | 47.1% | 9.0% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.3% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.4% | US median 14.4% |
| 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 | 19.8% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.2% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.90 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.34 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.53 | US median 0.48 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 75% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 77% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 50% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 62% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 69% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 64% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 6% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 228 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 | 55% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 79% | US median 79% |
| 96 |
| $20,942.04 |
| $17,108.79 |
| $9,973.97 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 80 | $14,891.19 | $11,986.26 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 76 | $13,947.59 | $11,096.49 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 55 | $9,487.04 | $7,326.58 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 54 | $10,270.48 | $7,609.00 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 194 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH CC | 51 | $9,220.31 | $6,792.75 | $5,880.23 |
| DRG 885 PSYCHOSES | 50 | $25,978.08 | $21,426.20 | $11,869.17 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 48 | $17,261.56 | $14,032.56 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 603 CELLULITIS WITHOUT MCC | 46 | $11,489.15 | $8,764.80 | $6,446.25 |
| DRG 312 SYNCOPE AND COLLAPSE | 35 | $11,330.34 | $8,748.06 | $6,636.32 |
| DRG 682 RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 35 | $14,779.17 | $11,588.97 | $11,457.18 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 35 | $10,940.49 | $8,752.86 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 34 | $11,503.38 | $8,635.32 | $7,294.77 |
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.
Union Hospital of Cecil County is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Elkton, MD with 124 beds, part of ChristianaCare and a 4-star overall rating.
Union Hospital of Cecil County in Elkton, MD has 124 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 166 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 6,268 inpatients that year, with 68.6% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Union Hospital of Cecil County reported net patient revenue of $213.3M and operating expenses of $210.1M, a margin on patient care of 1.5%. After other income and expenses its net income was $9.1M (4.1% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Union Hospital of Cecil County is part of ChristianaCare, a health system with 3 hospitals based in Newark, DE. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Union Hospital of Cecil County 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.
No, Union Hospital of Cecil County does not list emergency services.
681 Medicare clinicians list Union Hospital of Cecil County as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Medicine.
In 2024, Union Hospital of Cecil County had 1,636 Medicare inpatient stays in 47 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 215 stays; Medicare paid $19,753.95 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.