502 East Second Street, Duluth, MN, 55805 · (218) 786-2652
Beds
123
FY 2025
Star rating
Not rated
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$591.4M
FY 2025
Net income
$11.5M
Patient care margin -10.7%
Discharges
3,246
Occupancy 48.3%
Clinicians
855
Medicare clinicians who work here
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 | $591.4M | $654.8M | -10.7% | $11.5M | 3,246 | $2.3M | 23.5% | 17.0% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.2% | US median 3.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.1% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.2% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.1% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6.5% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.9% |
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.
| 2024 | $546.0M | $611.4M | -12.0% | -$2.2M | 2,697 | $2.2M | 22.7% | 16.3% |
| 2023 | $519.2M | $556.0M | -7.1% | -$5.4M | 2,960 | $2.4M | 27.1% | 6.3% |
| 2022 | $504.2M | $510.8M | -1.3% | $7.9M | 3,104 | $1.4M | 27.9% | 7.5% |
| 2021 | $462.3M | $465.5M | -0.7% | $65.2M | 2,977 | $1.6M | 27.8% | 5.3% |
| 2020 | $407.8M | $446.6M | -9.5% | -$16.4M | 2,727 | $2.5M | 26.3% | 8.5% |
| US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.5% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.94 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 76% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 76% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 58% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 60% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 60% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 63% | US median 71% |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 14% | US median 15% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 59% | US median 79% |
| 20 |
| $18,068.15 |
| $8,568.25 |
| $10,022.34 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 17 | $12,440.41 | $8,121.94 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 15 | $10,130.33 | $5,263.13 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 603 CELLULITIS WITHOUT MCC | 13 | $10,253.00 | $5,462.46 | $6,446.25 |
| DRG 322 PERCUTANEOUS CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES WITH INTRALUMINAL DEVICE WITHOUT MCC | 13 | $74,955.23 | $18,814.46 | $12,904.99 |
| DRG 883 DISORDERS OF PERSONALITY AND IMPULSE CONTROL | 12 | $45,497.33 | $19,396.75 | $15,443.92 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 634 | 434 | $502.99 | $502.15 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 326 | 283 | $1,503.46 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 247 | 214 | $1,409.46 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 234 | 224 | $1,184.73 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 198 | 189 | $10,385.03 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 96 | 90 | $2,063.51 | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 92 | 90 | $5,245.85 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 84 | 84 | $15,677.55 | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5462 Level 2 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures | 67 | 38 | $4,162.90 | $4,524.18 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 66 | 62 | $1,189.26 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5092 Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | 63 | 61 | $4,836.40 | $4,981.95 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 48 | 48 | $3,836.30 | $3,917.51 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. TNDM | 2 | $1,600 |
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.
Essentia Health Duluth is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Duluth, MN with 123 beds, part of Essentia Health.
Essentia Health Duluth in Duluth, MN has 123 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 121 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 3,246 inpatients that year, with 48.3% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Essentia Health Duluth reported net patient revenue of $591.4M and operating expenses of $654.8M, a margin on patient care of -10.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was $11.5M (1.7% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Essentia Health Duluth is part of Essentia Health, a health system with 14 hospitals based in Duluth, MN. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Essentia Health Duluth has no overall star rating, usually because it reports too few quality measures (for example small, specialty or federal hospitals).
No, Essentia Health Duluth does not list emergency services.
855 Medicare clinicians list Essentia Health Duluth as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Family Practice.
In 2024, Essentia Health Duluth had 265 Medicare inpatient stays in 8 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 885 (psychoses) with 138 stays; Medicare paid $12,618.89 per stay on average, compared with $11,869.17 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $1,600 in payments to Essentia Health Duluth as a teaching hospital ($1,600 general and - for research) from 1 companies.