52 Sergeant Prentiss Drive, Natchez, MS, 39120 · (601) 443-2100
Beds
131
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$65.8M
FY 2025
Net income
$8.0M
Patient care margin 11.9%
Discharges
2,298
Occupancy 23.1%
Clinicians
153
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 | $65.8M | $58.0M | 11.9% | $8.0M | 2,298 | $2.7M | 23.2% | 12.1% |
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 | 12.1% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 17.7% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 17.6% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.9% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22.8% |
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 | $66.8M | $60.2M | 10.0% | $8.0M | 2,276 | $2.7M | 25.4% | 15.4% |
| 2023 | $58.0M | $56.8M | 2.1% | $4.4M | 2,354 | $2.6M | 30.3% | 4.4% |
| 2022 | $58.7M | $58.2M | 0.9% | $3.0M | 2,659 | $3.3M | 31.4% | 3.4% |
| 2021 | $64.0M | $57.7M | 10.0% | $7.9M | 2,821 | $3.7M | 40.2% | 2.5% |
| 2020 | $65.9M | $61.8M | 6.3% | $11.0M | 2,945 | $3.5M | 42.7% | 3.6% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.9% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.15 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.30 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 76% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 79% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 61% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 58% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 73% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 49% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 2% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 175 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 6% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 43% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 33% | US median 79% |
| 22 |
| $117,580.32 |
| $13,423.55 |
| $11,457.18 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 22 | $131,741.00 | $10,754.05 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 18 | $68,371.11 | $6,633.61 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 16 | $78,539.25 | $7,412.88 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 15 | $97,875.93 | $9,507.93 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 14 | $350,044.86 | $43,709.64 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 14 | $144,331.57 | $13,442.21 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 13 | $83,290.38 | $11,162.38 | $10,642.23 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $60,394.42 | $6,056.00 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 11 | $103,770.27 | $14,073.82 | $13,076.55 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 90 | 85 | $1,893.33 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 43 | 43 | $4,128.50 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 31 | 27 | $2,282.00 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 29 | 29 | $1,160.73 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5091 Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | 28 | 27 | $2,631.47 | $2,930.15 |
| APC 5223 Level 3 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures | 16 | 16 | $7,956.71 | $8,569.01 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 13 | 12 | $1,876.38 | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5153 Level 3 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $1,264.08 |
| APC 5154 Level 4 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $2,832.62 |
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.
Merit Health Natchez is a for-profit short-term acute care hospital in Natchez, MS with 131 beds, part of Community Health Systems and a 2-star overall rating.
Merit Health Natchez in Natchez, MS has 131 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 179 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 2,298 inpatients that year, with 23.1% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Merit Health Natchez reported net patient revenue of $65.8M and operating expenses of $58.0M, a margin on patient care of 11.9%. After other income and expenses its net income was $8.0M (12.1% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Merit Health Natchez is part of Community Health Systems (listed company, ticker CYH), a health system with 60 hospitals based in Franklin, TN. It is a for-profit hospital.
Merit Health Natchez has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 0 death rate measures are better and 1 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Merit Health Natchez provides emergency services.
153 Medicare clinicians list Merit Health Natchez as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Merit Health Natchez had 309 Medicare inpatient stays in 12 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 114 stays; Medicare paid $16,631.92 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.