705 Lundorff Drive South, Sandstone, MN, 55072 · (218) 786-1367
Beds
9
FY 2025
Star rating
Not rated
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$24.2M
FY 2025
Net income
-$151K
Patient care margin -5.7%
Discharges
155
Occupancy 37.5%
Clinicians
86
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 | $24.2M | $25.5M | -5.7% | -$151K | 155 | $895K | 52.0% | 3.0% |
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 | 3.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 85% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 81% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 80% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 79% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 82% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
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 | $23.7M | $22.7M | 4.3% | $2.1M | 204 | $807K | 52.0% | 3.3% |
| 2023 | $22.2M | $21.5M | 3.0% | $1.6M | 201 | $590K | 55.2% | 0.3% |
| 2022 | $20.6M | $19.7M | 4.0% | $690K | 201 | $2.5M | 45.7% | 2.7% |
| 2021 | $20.0M | $18.4M | 7.8% | $3.9M | 211 | $475K | 54.5% | 7.4% |
| 2020 | $20.8M | $20.7M | 0.4% | $1.4M | 224 | $1.2M | 50.5% | 3.7% |
| US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 73% | 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) | 102 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 12% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 73% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 34% | US median 79% |
Essentia Health Sandstone is a nonprofit critical access hospital in Sandstone, MN with 9 beds, part of Essentia Health.
Essentia Health Sandstone in Sandstone, MN has 9 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 25 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 155 inpatients that year, with 37.5% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Essentia Health Sandstone reported net patient revenue of $24.2M and operating expenses of $25.5M, a margin on patient care of -5.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$151K (-0.6% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Essentia Health Sandstone is part of Essentia Health, a health system with 14 hospitals based in Duluth, MN. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Essentia Health Sandstone has no overall star rating, usually because it reports too few quality measures (for example small, specialty or federal hospitals).
Yes, Essentia Health Sandstone provides emergency services.
86 Medicare clinicians list Essentia Health Sandstone as a hospital they work at, most often in Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Nurse Practitioner.