57 Prospect Street, Nantucket, MA, 02554 · (508) 228-1200
Beds
14
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$84.4M
FY 2025
Net income
-$4.6M
Patient care margin -26.6%
Discharges
476
Occupancy 35.3%
Clinicians
199
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 | $84.4M | $106.8M | -26.6% | -$4.6M | 476 | $3.7M | 44.9% | 9.9% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 11.6% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 12.9% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.9% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.8% | US median 17.2% |
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 | - | $93.8M | - | -$93.8M | 522 | $4.0M | 52.1% | 10.5% |
| 2023 | $77.4M | $89.2M | -15.2% | -$4.0M | 535 | $3.3M | 49.9% | 11.7% |
| 2022 | $65.3M | $82.2M | -25.8% | -$11.6M | 517 | $3.0M | 46.4% | 13.8% |
| 2021 | $69.6M | $72.4M | -3.9% | $7.3M | 475 | $2.0M | 53.1% | 11.9% |
| 2020 | $52.0M | $63.4M | -22.0% | $2.6M | 434 | $2.2M | 52.7% | 19.4% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 85% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 82% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 75% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 85% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 80% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 82% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 0% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 120 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 10% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 58% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 99% | US median 79% |
| 11 |
| $18,948.73 |
| $8,804.55 |
| $5,985.69 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 11 | $22,681.09 | $15,917.09 | $10,022.34 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 72 | 67 | $2,508.46 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 20 | 13 | $626.00 | $502.15 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 16 | 16 | $6,595.87 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 14 | 14 | $1,485.80 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | - | - | - | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5362 Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services | - | - | - | $8,164.45 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | - | - | - | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5414 Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures | - | - | - | $2,389.24 |
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.
Nantucket Cottage Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Nantucket, MA with 14 beds, part of Mass General Brigham and a 3-star overall rating.
Nantucket Cottage Hospital in Nantucket, MA has 14 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 19 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 476 inpatients that year, with 35.3% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Nantucket Cottage Hospital reported net patient revenue of $84.4M and operating expenses of $106.8M, a margin on patient care of -26.6%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$4.6M (-4.5% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Nantucket Cottage Hospital is part of Mass General Brigham, a health system with 15 hospitals based in Somerville, MA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Nantucket Cottage Hospital has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings.
Yes, Nantucket Cottage Hospital provides emergency services.
199 Medicare clinicians list Nantucket Cottage Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Diagnostic Radiology, Pathology, Physician Assistant.
In 2024, Nantucket Cottage Hospital had 46 Medicare inpatient stays in 4 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 194 (simple pneumonia and pleurisy with cc) with 12 stays; Medicare paid $9,264.67 per stay on average, compared with $5,880.23 across all hospitals.