1404 East Second Street, Defiance, OH, 43512 · (419) 782-8444
Beds
23
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$60.6M
FY 2025
Net income
$367K
Patient care margin -1.3%
Discharges
1,039
Occupancy 30.4%
Clinicians
223
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 | $60.6M | $61.4M | -1.3% | $367K | 1,039 | $1.7M | 34.0% | 1.1% |
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 | 7% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 12.3% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.7% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.4% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.4% |
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 | $57.6M | $59.2M | -2.7% | -$569K | 1,034 | $1.3M | 39.8% | 0.7% |
| 2023 | $51.6M | $57.7M | -11.9% | -$3.7M | 1,043 | $1.3M | 46.9% | 0.9% |
| 2022 | $50.4M | $58.1M | -15.3% | -$3.4M | 1,033 | $1.5M | 44.0% | 1.5% |
| 2021 | $53.2M | $53.4M | -0.3% | $1.3M | 1,053 | $1.7M | 44.2% | 1.5% |
| 2020 | $45.3M | $46.2M | -2.0% | $5.6M | 1,008 | $1.7M | 48.5% | 1.2% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.6% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.99 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 89% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 86% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 70% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 82% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 85% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 73% | 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) | 127 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 18% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 58% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 81% | US median 79% |
| 22 |
| $20,045.50 |
| $5,126.95 |
| $5,880.23 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 18 | $17,943.56 | $5,227.11 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 309 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS WITH CC | 14 | $14,169.93 | $4,590.57 | $5,247.13 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 13 | $16,845.08 | $5,273.92 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 308 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS WITH MCC | 12 | $16,434.00 | $7,792.83 | $9,138.57 |
| DRG 191 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH CC | 12 | $22,720.58 | $5,311.92 | $6,374.32 |
| DRG 330 MAJOR SMALL AND LARGE BOWEL PROCEDURES WITH CC | 12 | $134,727.33 | $19,648.92 | $18,026.21 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 94 | 70 | $483.33 | $502.15 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 60 | 55 | $1,948.97 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 42 | 42 | $4,010.58 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 28 | 26 | $1,445.97 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 27 | 23 | $1,024.35 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 22 | 19 | $10,114.54 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 18 | 18 | $2,269.58 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 17 | 16 | $1,293.90 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 17 | 15 | $3,684.29 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 17 | 17 | $5,093.90 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 15 | 15 | $2,298.45 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 14 | - | $2,482.24 | $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.
Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Defiance, OH with 23 beds, part of Bon Secours Mercy Health and a 4-star overall rating.
Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital in Defiance, OH has 23 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report). It discharged 1,039 inpatients that year, with 30.4% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital reported net patient revenue of $60.6M and operating expenses of $61.4M, a margin on patient care of -1.3%. After other income and expenses its net income was $367K (0.6% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital is part of Bon Secours Mercy Health, a health system with 37 hospitals based in Cincinnati, OH. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital 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, Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital provides emergency services.
223 Medicare clinicians list Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Family Practice.
In 2024, Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital had 162 Medicare inpatient stays in 9 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 291 (heart failure and shock with mcc) with 30 stays; Medicare paid $8,983.83 per stay on average, compared with $10,022.34 across all hospitals.