500 S Academy St, Ahoskie, NC, 27910 · (252) 209-3000
Beds
50
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$87.6M
FY 2025
Net income
-$5.9M
Patient care margin -9.7%
Discharges
2,677
Occupancy 74.2%
Clinicians
265
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 | $87.6M | $96.1M | -9.7% | -$5.9M | 2,677 | $4.1M | 27.9% | 2.3% |
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 | 9.8% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 14.4% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.5% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 16.7% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 12.4% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.4% |
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 | $97.5M | $102.2M | -4.9% | -$117K | 2,626 | $5.0M | 29.7% | 5.1% |
| 2023 | $84.1M | $93.1M | -10.8% | -$7.7M | 2,448 | $6.2M | 28.1% | 4.3% |
| 2022 | $88.5M | $99.3M | -12.2% | -$9.8M | 2,768 | $6.7M | 38.1% | 5.8% |
| 2021 | $92.1M | $92.7M | -0.6% | $5.4M | 2,804 | $6.9M | 43.8% | 12.3% |
| 2020 | $85.8M | $88.0M | -2.6% | $5.1M | 2,922 | $8.0M | 47.7% | 15.4% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.3% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.3% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.06 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.62 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 82% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 79% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 57% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 62% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 76% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 53% | 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) | 140 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 | 36% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 98% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 73% | US median 74% |
| 27 |
| $22,867.67 |
| $6,423.00 |
| $6,629.69 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 19 | $20,841.47 | $6,937.16 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 17 | $20,320.06 | $8,227.47 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 16 | $29,508.19 | $8,084.94 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 16 | $20,630.31 | $7,296.25 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 194 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH CC | 16 | $18,851.31 | $5,866.94 | $5,880.23 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 16 | $33,978.19 | $9,440.25 | $10,642.23 |
| DRG 812 RED BLOOD CELL DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 15 | $19,048.60 | $6,653.33 | $7,177.67 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 13 | $26,997.62 | $11,752.15 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 13 | $26,804.69 | $6,597.54 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $16,946.08 | $5,722.67 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 12 | $24,342.25 | $12,155.67 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 638 DIABETES WITH CC | 12 | $18,476.50 | $6,459.00 | $6,926.41 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 131 | 116 | $2,031.03 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 67 | 66 | $5,307.64 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 29 | 27 | $10,616.93 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 18 | 17 | $1,992.78 | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 17 | 17 | $2,403.57 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 16 | 16 | $2,366.92 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 13 | - | $1,512.47 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | - | - | - | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5092 Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $4,981.95 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $15,762.73 |
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.
Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Ahoskie, NC with 50 beds, part of East Carolina Health and a 2-star overall rating.
Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie, NC has 50 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 124 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 2,677 inpatients that year, with 74.2% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital reported net patient revenue of $87.6M and operating expenses of $96.1M, a margin on patient care of -9.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$5.9M (-6.5% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital is part of East Carolina Health, a health system with 2 hospitals based in Greenville, NC. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital provides emergency services.
265 Medicare clinicians list Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, Nurse Practitioner.
In 2024, Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital had 376 Medicare inpatient stays in 17 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 101 stays; Medicare paid $14,064.92 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.