121 East Baker Street, Indianola, MS, 38751 · (662) 887-5235
Beds
40
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$22.7M
FY 2025
Net income
$7.5M
Patient care margin -24.8%
Discharges
475
Occupancy 19.5%
Clinicians
36
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 | $22.7M | $28.3M | -24.8% | $7.5M | 475 | $2.1M | 37.1% | 13.1% |
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 | 5.6% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 18.3% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.8% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.6% | US median 17.2% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 92% | US median 79% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
| Diagnosis group | Stays | Average charge | Medicare pays per stay | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 11 | $16,669.64 | $10,463.64 | $10,022.34 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
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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 | $26.0M | $33.4M | -28.3% | $2.3M | 608 | $2.3M | 31.0% | 12.5% |
| 2023 | $23.4M | $32.9M | -40.4% | -$753K | 617 | $2.2M | 51.1% | 12.5% |
| 2022 | $22.8M | $29.7M | -30.4% | $610K | 664 | $1.7M | 55.5% | 10.8% |
| 2021 | $26.3M | $30.9M | -17.7% | $4.7M | 748 | $2.6M | 54.8% | 17.2% |
| 2020 | $24.4M | $30.1M | -23.4% | $194K | 816 | $2.1M | 61.2% | 15.8% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 86% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 78% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 74% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 79% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 69% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 14% | US median 1% |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 8% | US median 15% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 82% | US median 79% |
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| Patients |
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| Medicare pays per service |
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| All hospitals |
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| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 78 | 70 | $1,882.89 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
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.
South Sunflower County Hospital is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Indianola, MS with 40 beds and a 2-star overall rating.
South Sunflower County Hospital in Indianola, MS has 40 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 69 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 475 inpatients that year, with 19.5% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), South Sunflower County Hospital reported net patient revenue of $22.7M and operating expenses of $28.3M, a margin on patient care of -24.8%. After other income and expenses its net income was $7.5M (21.0% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
South Sunflower County Hospital is not part of a multi-hospital health system in the official ownership records. It is a government-owned hospital (Government (local)).
South Sunflower County Hospital has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings.
Yes, South Sunflower County Hospital provides emergency services.
36 Medicare clinicians list South Sunflower County Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Emergency Medicine.
In 2024, South Sunflower County Hospital had 11 Medicare inpatient stays in 1 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 291 (heart failure and shock with mcc) with 11 stays; Medicare paid $10,463.64 per stay on average, compared with $10,022.34 across all hospitals.