101 Hospital Drive, Columbus, NC, 28722 · (828) 894-3311
Beds
25
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$44.4M
FY 2025
Net income
-$271K
Patient care margin -22.1%
Discharges
806
Occupancy 38.4%
Clinicians
222
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 | $44.4M | $54.2M | -22.1% | -$271K | 806 | $1.4M | 39.1% | 0.3% |
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 | 11.2% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.5% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 15.5% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 18.9% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20.6% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.9% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
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 | $50.2M | $48.2M | 4.0% | $8.4M | 731 | $1.9M | 44.4% | 1.3% |
| 2023 | $44.0M | $45.4M | -3.1% | $4.3M | 704 | $2.1M | 50.6% | 0.8% |
| 2022 | $50.4M | $51.3M | -1.8% | $322K | 820 | $2.6M | 47.5% | 0.7% |
| 2021 | $50.4M | $48.0M | 4.8% | $10.5M | 995 | $1.6M | 50.5% | 1.9% |
| 2020 | $41.0M | $44.5M | -8.7% | $2.1M | 926 | $740K | 54.0% | 2.4% |
| US median 17.2% |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 84% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 85% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 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 | 76% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 65% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 75% | US median 71% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 136 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 30% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 73% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 70% | US median 79% |
Advent Health Polk is a nonprofit critical access hospital in Columbus, NC with 25 beds, part of AdventHealth and a 4-star overall rating.
Advent Health Polk in Columbus, NC has 25 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 35 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 806 inpatients that year, with 38.4% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Advent Health Polk reported net patient revenue of $44.4M and operating expenses of $54.2M, a margin on patient care of -22.1%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$271K (-0.6% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Advent Health Polk is part of AdventHealth, a health system with 43 hospitals based in Altamonte Springs, FL. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Advent Health Polk has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 4 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Advent Health Polk provides emergency services.
222 Medicare clinicians list Advent Health Polk as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology.