1501 West Elk Avenue, Elizabethton, TN, 37643 · (423) 542-1300
Beds
59
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$52.9M
FY 2025
Net income
-$4.3M
Patient care margin -13.1%
Discharges
2,811
Occupancy 55.1%
Clinicians
311
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 | $52.9M | $59.9M | -13.1% | -$4.3M | 2,811 | $3.2M | 21.2% | 4.3% |
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 | 13.5% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.9% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 18.1% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 12.8% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.2% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20.7% |
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 | $50.2M | $50.0M | 0.5% | $686K | 2,469 | $3.1M | 23.3% | 6.2% |
| 2023 | $52.9M | $52.9M | 0.0% | $628K | 2,797 | $3.0M | 22.7% | 8.3% |
| 2022 | $56.9M | $52.0M | 8.7% | $7.8M | 3,427 | $3.2M | 22.6% | 5.1% |
| 2021 | $46.1M | $47.4M | -2.9% | $95K | 3,311 | $3.8M | 24.2% | 7.2% |
| 2020 | $44.7M | $46.6M | -4.1% | $67K | 3,232 | $3.4M | 25.4% | 0.2% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6.6% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.9% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.1% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.92 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.36 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 81% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 81% | 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 | 74% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 69% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 71% | 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) | 142 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 21% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 67% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 96% | US median 79% |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 22 | $31,742.86 | $6,764.36 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 22 | $28,636.82 | $7,574.18 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 21 | $34,703.62 | $7,405.67 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 19 | $43,534.11 | $6,379.42 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 18 | $64,633.89 | $9,433.67 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 14 | $25,981.79 | $5,840.71 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 13 | $47,389.77 | $9,485.08 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $18,342.33 | $4,525.83 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $30,528.25 | $4,760.25 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 11 | $23,250.09 | $4,243.64 | $5,662.18 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 42 | 42 | $8,804.96 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 26 | 26 | $1,734.94 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 13 | 13 | $4,715.87 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 13 | 13 | $2,133.68 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 12 | 12 | $1,273.91 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5093 Level 3 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $7,546.33 |
| APC 5094 Level 4 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $15,548.74 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5153 Level 3 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $1,264.08 |
| APC 5154 Level 4 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $2,832.62 |
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.
Sycamore Shoals Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Elizabethton, TN with 59 beds, part of Ballad Health and a 2-star overall rating.
Sycamore Shoals Hospital in Elizabethton, TN has 59 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 121 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 2,811 inpatients that year, with 55.1% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Sycamore Shoals Hospital reported net patient revenue of $52.9M and operating expenses of $59.9M, a margin on patient care of -13.1%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$4.3M (-7.7% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Sycamore Shoals Hospital is part of Ballad Health, a health system with 16 hospitals based in Johnson City, TN. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Sycamore Shoals Hospital has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 4 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Sycamore Shoals Hospital provides emergency services.
311 Medicare clinicians list Sycamore Shoals Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Family Practice.
In 2024, Sycamore Shoals Hospital had 257 Medicare inpatient stays in 12 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 64 stays; Medicare paid $10,034.33 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.