1018 Sixth Avenue Po Box 997, Worthington, MN, 56187 · (507) 372-3110
Beds
48
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$66.1M
FY 2025
Net income
-$1.4M
Patient care margin -6.9%
Discharges
1,318
Occupancy 18.6%
Clinicians
250
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 | $66.1M | $70.7M | -6.9% | -$1.4M | 1,318 | $2.3M | 26.6% | 29.7% |
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 | 13% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.2% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 17.2% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.4% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 19.7% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.6% |
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 | $65.0M | $67.2M | -3.3% | $105K | 1,264 | $2.1M | 24.9% | 30.7% |
| 2023 | $62.5M | $64.4M | -3.1% | $1.3M | 1,409 | $1.5M | 26.9% | 25.9% |
| 2022 | $55.5M | $59.0M | -6.3% | -$1.4M | 1,382 | $1.4M | 29.9% | 27.0% |
| 2021 | $53.3M | $53.8M | -0.9% | $2.3M | 1,049 | $1.5M | 25.7% | 39.2% |
| 2020 | $46.0M | $49.8M | -8.1% | $217K | 1,071 | $1.5M | 28.4% | 33.5% |
| US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.00 | US median 0.96 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 81% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 80% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 60% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 69% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 66% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 68% | 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) | 115 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 7% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 76% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 90% | US median 79% |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 95 | 61 | $1,851.03 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 94 | 82 | $2,174.21 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 50 | 43 | $535.87 | $502.15 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 13 | 12 | $2,564.44 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 13 | 13 | $1,276.62 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 12 | 12 | $4,579.72 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,635.67 |
| 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 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | - | - | - | $1,406.61 |
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.
Sanford Worthington Medical Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Worthington, MN with 48 beds, part of Sanford Health and a 4-star overall rating.
Sanford Worthington Medical Center in Worthington, MN has 48 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report). It discharged 1,318 inpatients that year, with 18.6% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), Sanford Worthington Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $66.1M and operating expenses of $70.7M, a margin on patient care of -6.9%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$1.4M (-2.0% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Sanford Worthington Medical Center is part of Sanford Health, a health system with 44 hospitals based in Sioux Falls, SD. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Sanford Worthington Medical Center has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 4 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Sanford Worthington Medical Center provides emergency services.
250 Medicare clinicians list Sanford Worthington Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Diagnostic Radiology, Family Practice.
In 2024, Sanford Worthington Medical Center had 62 Medicare inpatient stays in 2 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 46 stays; Medicare paid $17,057.26 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.