330 Main Street, Dickson City, PA, 18519 · (570) 330-5000
Beds
40
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$132.7M
FY 2025
Net income
-$28.7M
Patient care margin 1.2%
Discharges
2,435
Occupancy 60.3%
Clinicians
317
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 | $132.7M | $131.1M | 1.2% | -$28.7M | 2,435 | $2.1M | 34.5% | 2.2% |
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 | 8.2% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 9.6% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 12.9% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.2% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22.8% |
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 | $141.5M | $107.3M | 24.2% | $34.6M | 2,349 | $1.2M | 35.6% | 1.9% |
| 2023 | $85.9M | $85.8M | 0.1% | $990K | 1,737 | $410K | 38.6% | 1.6% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 7% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.9% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.4% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.93 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.60 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 82% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 83% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 63% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 77% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 81% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 83% | 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) | 160 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 24% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 55% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 73% | US median 79% |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 26 | $121,425.15 | $11,612.58 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 26 | $36,162.73 | $3,545.15 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 21 | $55,864.05 | $6,298.52 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 603 CELLULITIS WITHOUT MCC | 21 | $34,920.86 | $4,199.10 | $6,446.25 |
| DRG 522 HIP REPLACEMENT WITH PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS OF HIP FRACTURE WITHOUT MCC | 20 | $129,042.65 | $11,956.60 | $15,768.13 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 19 | $55,399.58 | $6,731.47 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 19 | $69,974.26 | $8,717.21 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 18 | $41,978.17 | $4,972.83 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 16 | $39,362.56 | $4,512.56 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 467 REVISION OF HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT WITH CC | 16 | $164,150.81 | $19,454.25 | $26,100.04 |
| DRG 468 REVISION OF HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT WITHOUT CC/MCC | 15 | $170,993.93 | $15,796.00 | $19,721.95 |
| DRG 552 MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITHOUT MCC | 15 | $30,197.00 | $4,531.93 | $7,114.44 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 15 | $38,548.73 | $5,946.27 | $8,838.11 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 405 | 396 | $9,899.04 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 127 | 126 | $5,010.84 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 101 | 95 | $1,346.78 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 70 | 70 | $4,104.88 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 68 | 68 | $2,265.40 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 64 | 62 | $14,978.03 | $15,762.73 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 49 | 49 | $1,935.87 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 49 | 46 | $1,141.68 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5155 Level 5 Airway Endoscopy | 47 | 46 | $4,866.80 | $5,183.46 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 43 | 39 | $2,480.84 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 36 | 36 | $1,447.82 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5165 Level 5 ENT Procedures | 33 | 33 | $4,164.15 | $4,436.36 |
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.
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Dickson City, PA with 40 beds, part of Jefferson Health and a 3-star overall rating.
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City in Dickson City, PA has 40 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 24 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 2,435 inpatients that year, with 60.3% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City reported net patient revenue of $132.7M and operating expenses of $131.1M, a margin on patient care of 1.2%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$28.7M (-28.0% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City is part of Jefferson Health, a health system with 13 hospitals based in Philadelphia, PA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City 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, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City provides emergency services.
317 Medicare clinicians list Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City as a hospital they work at, most often in Physician Assistant, Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City had 445 Medicare inpatient stays in 21 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 470 (major hip and knee joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity without mcc) with 89 stays; Medicare paid $10,475.00 per stay on average, compared with $14,289.25 across all hospitals.