500 Upper Chesapeake Drive, Bel Air, MD, 21014 · (443) 643-3303
Beds
218
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$446.1M
FY 2025
Net income
$51.3M
Patient care margin 7.1%
Discharges
13,339
Occupancy 86.1%
Clinicians
709
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 | $446.1M | $414.5M | 7.1% | $51.3M | 13,339 | $10.5M | 48.5% | 3.5% |
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 | 11.9% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 10.8% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 12.8% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.1% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 11.9% | 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 | $370.9M | $351.4M | 5.3% | $11.1M | 12,299 | - | 46.2% | 3.8% |
| 2023 | $320.2M | $312.0M | 2.5% | $28.9M | 12,992 | - | 49.5% | 3.8% |
| 2022 | $320.9M | $306.5M | 4.5% | $1.2M | 12,040 | - | 47.6% | 4.0% |
| 2021 | $298.2M | $284.8M | 4.5% | $59.0M | 12,415 | - | 50.1% | 4.4% |
| 2020 | $259.8M | $273.0M | -5.1% | $1.5M | 11,046 | $17.9M | 53.3% | 5.1% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.4% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 13.6% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 19.9% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6.1% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.7% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.3% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.31 | US median 0.96 · worse |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.10 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.13 | US median 0.48 · better |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.72 · better |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.35 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.48 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 71% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 73% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 53% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 59% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 64% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 59% | US median 71% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 239 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 18% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 50% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 95% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 80% | US median 74% |
| 131 |
| $12,130.98 |
| $9,349.66 |
| $7,681.44 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 125 | $20,190.82 | $17,057.93 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 118 | $13,934.51 | $11,401.27 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 111 | $10,800.08 | $8,280.02 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 109 | $11,899.72 | $9,176.14 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 105 | $15,963.82 | $13,004.62 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 104 | $10,340.55 | $8,089.30 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 89 | $15,180.38 | $12,399.09 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 194 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH CC | 81 | $12,043.14 | $9,270.10 | $5,880.23 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 76 | $11,963.45 | $9,379.80 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 312 SYNCOPE AND COLLAPSE | 76 | $11,677.61 | $9,136.63 | $6,636.32 |
| DRG 309 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS WITH CC | 70 | $10,648.77 | $8,296.40 | $5,247.13 |
| DRG 308 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS WITH MCC | 69 | $17,072.70 | $14,138.91 | $9,138.57 |
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.
Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Bel Air, MD with 218 beds, part of University of Maryland Medical System and a 2-star overall rating.
Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD has 218 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 219 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 13,339 inpatients that year, with 86.1% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $446.1M and operating expenses of $414.5M, a margin on patient care of 7.1%. After other income and expenses its net income was $51.3M (10.5% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center is part of University of Maryland Medical System, a health system with 11 hospitals based in Baltimore, MD. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 1 death rate measures are better and 1 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center provides emergency services.
709 Medicare clinicians list Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center had 5,096 Medicare inpatient stays in 117 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 841 stays; Medicare paid $17,406.12 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.