180 Parkwood Dr, Elkin, NC, 28621 · (336) 527-7000
Beds
81
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$111.6M
FY 2025
Net income
-$10.5M
Patient care margin -23.6%
Discharges
2,242
Occupancy 30.3%
Clinicians
189
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 | $111.6M | $137.9M | -23.6% | -$10.5M | 2,242 | $6.2M | 17.6% | 1.8% |
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 | 10% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 13.5% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 5.3% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 18% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 17.1% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 21.1% |
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 | $117.8M | $157.0M | -33.3% | -$10.6M | 2,566 | $6.8M | 21.1% | 3.1% |
| 2023 | $112.3M | $140.5M | -25.1% | -$5.2M | 2,647 | $7.1M | 23.9% | 3.0% |
| 2022 | $115.6M | $128.0M | -10.7% | -$26.1M | 3,025 | $6.9M | 26.0% | 3.7% |
| 2021 | $113.1M | $118.7M | -5.0% | $33.7M | 3,797 | $7.8M | 25.6% | 11.5% |
| 2020 | $94.6M | $107.7M | -13.8% | $12.9M | 3,565 | $7.4M | 27.5% | 14.8% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22.4% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.2% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.1% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.8% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.97 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.67 | US median 0.28 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 81% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 82% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 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 | 70% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 78% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 68% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 0% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 168 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 15% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 58% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 94% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 83% | US median 74% |
| 34 |
| $33,454.88 |
| $8,935.85 |
| $10,022.34 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 22 | $38,693.32 | $8,025.73 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 20 | $33,218.55 | $11,585.05 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $19,767.50 | $5,550.42 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 389 GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION WITH CC | 11 | $22,212.73 | $5,488.64 | $5,697.23 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 130 | 86 | $1,586.27 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 118 | 112 | $1,865.63 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 107 | 98 | $1,322.21 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 65 | 64 | $9,807.07 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 65 | 56 | $471.10 | $502.15 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 62 | 54 | $1,113.52 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 40 | 39 | $1,110.05 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 39 | 38 | $2,244.22 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 37 | 32 | $1,407.11 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 24 | 22 | $3,579.74 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 23 | 21 | $4,526.92 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | 20 | 19 | $2,361.60 | $2,635.67 |
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.
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Elkin, NC with 81 beds, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and a 3-star overall rating.
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital in Elkin, NC has 81 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report). It discharged 2,242 inpatients that year, with 30.3% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital reported net patient revenue of $111.6M and operating expenses of $137.9M, a margin on patient care of -23.6%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$10.5M (-8.2% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, a health system with 4 hospitals based in Winston Salem, NC. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 4 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital provides emergency services.
189 Medicare clinicians list Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital had 181 Medicare inpatient stays in 7 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 46 stays; Medicare paid $13,335.61 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.