585 Lebanon Street, Melrose, MA, 02176 · (781) 979-3000
Beds
160
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$259.4M
FY 2025
Net income
-$264K
Patient care margin -10.2%
Discharges
8,781
Occupancy 59.4%
Clinicians
675
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 | $259.4M | $285.8M | -10.2% | -$264K | 8,781 | $4.0M | 38.6% | 5.1% |
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 | 8% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 12.2% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 9.7% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.1% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 13.2% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 9.4% | 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 | $234.3M | $280.7M | -19.8% | -$15.5M | 8,205 | $6.9M | 39.2% | 6.9% |
| 2023 | $241.2M | $286.5M | -18.8% | $52.7M | 7,829 | $1.9M | 40.0% | 5.4% |
| 2022 | $217.5M | $310.1M | -42.6% | -$104.3M | 7,617 | $3.9M | 38.9% | 5.9% |
| 2021 | $215.0M | $245.9M | -14.3% | $20.9M | 7,296 | $4.1M | 43.0% | 8.0% |
| 2020 | $195.0M | $231.4M | -18.7% | $52.2M | 7,269 | $4.2M | 44.6% | 6.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.1% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 15.5% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.8% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.7% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.36 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.21 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.42 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 1.53 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 1.61 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 78% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 82% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 47% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 68% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 63% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 64% | 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) | 190 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 17% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 47% | 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 | 92% | US median 74% |
| 98 |
| $19,279.26 |
| $9,704.72 |
| $9,867.73 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 98 | $24,212.26 | $11,973.35 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 69 | $14,838.46 | $6,227.06 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 66 | $18,878.94 | $7,621.61 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 66 | $13,100.20 | $5,398.95 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 312 SYNCOPE AND COLLAPSE | 63 | $21,953.19 | $6,651.54 | $6,636.32 |
| DRG 194 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH CC | 62 | $13,754.03 | $5,321.92 | $5,880.23 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 60 | $14,393.18 | $5,510.93 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 309 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS WITH CC | 54 | $10,522.02 | $5,084.98 | $5,247.13 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 49 | $16,886.76 | $8,233.31 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 48 | $16,130.88 | $7,143.58 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 47 | $17,441.66 | $10,953.43 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 45 | $12,101.87 | $4,903.76 | $5,829.71 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 773 | 692 | $2,311.62 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 171 | 159 | $1,379.04 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 131 | 131 | $2,496.50 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 88 | 88 | $4,712.37 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 87 | 85 | $4,427.57 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 87 | 87 | $12,334.29 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 82 | 71 | $2,694.18 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 78 | 68 | $1,595.94 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 58 | 58 | $6,121.56 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5222 Level 2 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures | 50 | 50 | $7,484.98 | $6,513.82 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 46 | 41 | $2,978.93 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5193 Level 3 Endovascular Procedures | 46 | 44 | $10,167.41 | $8,873.86 |
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.
Melrosewakefield Healthcare is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Melrose, MA with 160 beds, part of Wellforce and a 3-star overall rating.
Melrosewakefield Healthcare in Melrose, MA has 160 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 128 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 8,781 inpatients that year, with 59.4% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Melrosewakefield Healthcare reported net patient revenue of $259.4M and operating expenses of $285.8M, a margin on patient care of -10.2%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$264K (-0.1% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Melrosewakefield Healthcare is part of Wellforce, a health system with 3 hospitals based in Burlington, MA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Melrosewakefield Healthcare has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Melrosewakefield Healthcare provides emergency services.
675 Medicare clinicians list Melrosewakefield Healthcare as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice.
In 2024, Melrosewakefield Healthcare had 2,309 Medicare inpatient stays in 64 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 291 (heart failure and shock with mcc) with 256 stays; Medicare paid $9,367.69 per stay on average, compared with $10,022.34 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $10K in payments to Melrosewakefield Healthcare as a teaching hospital ($10K general and - for research) from 4 companies.