4800 South Croatan Highway, Nags Head, NC, 27959 · (252) 449-4500
Beds
21
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$122.2M
FY 2025
Net income
$38.8M
Patient care margin 26.1%
Discharges
1,407
Occupancy 52.1%
Clinicians
382
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 | $122.2M | $90.3M | 26.1% | $38.8M | 1,407 | $5.3M | 40.9% | 2.7% |
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% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 9.5% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 13.6% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 10.8% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.8% |
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 | $106.3M | $86.1M | 19.0% | $30.7M | 1,347 | $6.7M | 39.9% | 3.7% |
| 2023 | $96.7M | $73.0M | 24.4% | $27.5M | 1,155 | $6.4M | 40.9% | 2.9% |
| 2022 | $93.7M | $69.1M | 26.2% | $29.4M | 1,060 | $5.9M | 36.8% | 4.8% |
| 2021 | $95.3M | $64.2M | 32.6% | $26.6M | 1,076 | $5.7M | 36.2% | 13.9% |
| 2020 | $79.2M | $57.5M | 27.4% | $20.6M | 1,059 | $6.1M | 33.7% | 22.8% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22.5% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.5% | US median 17.2% |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.55 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 85% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 87% | 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 | 78% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 76% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 80% | 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) | 208 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 13% | US median 15% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 94% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 80% | US median 74% |
The Outer Banks Hospital, Inc is a nonprofit critical access hospital in Nags Head, NC with 21 beds, part of East Carolina Health and a 4-star overall rating.
The Outer Banks Hospital, Inc in Nags Head, NC has 21 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 19 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 1,407 inpatients that year, with 52.1% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), The Outer Banks Hospital, Inc reported net patient revenue of $122.2M and operating expenses of $90.3M, a margin on patient care of 26.1%. After other income and expenses its net income was $38.8M (30.1% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
The Outer Banks Hospital, Inc is part of East Carolina Health, a health system with 2 hospitals based in Greenville, NC. It is a nonprofit hospital.
The Outer Banks Hospital, Inc 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, The Outer Banks Hospital, Inc provides emergency services.
382 Medicare clinicians list The Outer Banks Hospital, Inc as a hospital they work at, most often in Diagnostic Radiology, Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine.