1030 River Oaks Drive, Flowood, MS, 39232 · (601) 932-1030
Beds
158
FY 2025
Star rating
1 of 5
Patient survey: 1 of 5
Net patient revenue
$187.2M
FY 2025
Net income
$26.5M
Patient care margin 12.5%
Discharges
6,404
Occupancy 46.9%
Clinicians
330
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 | $187.2M | $163.9M | 12.5% | $26.5M | 6,404 | $6.7M | 17.6% | 21.0% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 8.9% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 13.3% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 10% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.5% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 16.3% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 16.1% | US median 11.6% |
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 | $184.1M | $156.5M | 15.0% | $30.6M | 5,937 | $5.6M | 20.9% | 16.8% |
| 2023 | $164.1M | $147.0M | 10.4% | $19.5M | 5,332 | $5.8M | 18.0% | 22.6% |
| 2022 | $124.1M | $115.4M | 7.0% | $10.2M | 4,582 | $5.6M | 19.6% | 27.3% |
| 2021 | $122.4M | $102.5M | 16.3% | $29.0M | 4,395 | $3.9M | 19.2% | 26.2% |
| 2020 | $117.5M | $99.0M | 15.7% | $22.1M | 4,667 | $5.0M | 20.9% | 32.7% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 21.3% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.5% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.8% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6.3% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.7% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.89 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.72 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 73% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 68% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 1 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 | 52% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 50% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 51% | 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) | 134 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 | 53% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 40% | US median 79% |
| DRG 321 PERCUTANEOUS CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES WITH INTRALUMINAL DEVICE WITH MCC OR 4+ ARTERIES/ | 33 | $288,290.03 | $17,515.61 | $22,190.93 |
| DRG 522 HIP REPLACEMENT WITH PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS OF HIP FRACTURE WITHOUT MCC | 30 | $228,724.73 | $12,527.70 | $15,768.13 |
| DRG 468 REVISION OF HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT WITHOUT CC/MCC | 29 | $324,230.52 | $15,444.07 | $19,721.95 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 27 | $118,686.30 | $7,392.67 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 25 | $82,249.16 | $4,525.36 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 455 COMBINED ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR SPINAL FUSION WITHOUT CC/MCC | 24 | $385,716.71 | $26,590.88 | $33,846.56 |
| DRG 322 PERCUTANEOUS CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES WITH INTRALUMINAL DEVICE WITHOUT MCC | 23 | $202,055.87 | $10,774.30 | $12,904.99 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 23 | $110,185.70 | $7,772.96 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 23 | $88,921.13 | $5,207.74 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 21 | $225,558.33 | $12,385.57 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 274 PERCUTANEOUS AND OTHER INTRACARDIAC PROCEDURES WITHOUT MCC | 21 | $288,176.43 | $19,557.71 | $24,748.54 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 20 | $100,435.20 | $7,461.70 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 467 REVISION OF HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT WITH CC | 20 | $359,218.75 | $17,257.35 | $26,100.04 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 213 | 206 | $1,248.68 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 186 | 185 | $13,878.82 | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 159 | 155 | $9,372.03 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 145 | 145 | $4,703.03 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5362 Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 130 | 130 | $6,938.52 | $8,164.45 |
| APC 5213 Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures | 82 | 81 | $17,980.15 | $21,117.37 |
| APC 5194 Level 4 Endovascular Procedures | 41 | 32 | $12,385.11 | $14,606.35 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 39 | 39 | $1,778.87 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 38 | 38 | $1,956.48 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 36 | 35 | $3,741.60 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5303 Level 3 Upper GI Procedures | 32 | 32 | $2,460.06 | $2,887.88 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 32 | 28 | $2,170.43 | $2,629.24 |
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 River Oaks is a for-profit short-term acute care hospital in Flowood, MS with 158 beds, part of Community Health Systems and a 1-star overall rating.
Merit Health River Oaks in Flowood, MS has 158 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 106 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 6,404 inpatients that year, with 46.9% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Merit Health River Oaks reported net patient revenue of $187.2M and operating expenses of $163.9M, a margin on patient care of 12.5%. After other income and expenses its net income was $26.5M (13.9% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Merit Health River Oaks 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 River Oaks has an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 1 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Merit Health River Oaks provides emergency services.
330 Medicare clinicians list Merit Health River Oaks as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna), Orthopedic Surgery.
In 2024, Merit Health River Oaks had 726 Medicare inpatient stays in 29 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 470 (major hip and knee joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity without mcc) with 106 stays; Medicare paid $10,853.84 per stay on average, compared with $14,289.25 across all hospitals.