520 W Main St, Smithville, TN, 37166 · (615) 215-5000
Beds
18
FY 2025
Star rating
Not rated
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$12.7M
FY 2025
Net income
-$2.6M
Patient care margin -21.2%
Discharges
376
Occupancy 17.1%
Clinicians
83
Medicare clinicians who work here
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 | $12.7M | $15.4M | -21.2% | -$2.6M | 376 | $1.8M | 26.8% | - |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 12.6% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.3% | US median 17.2% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 81% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 87% | US median 80% |
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.
| 2024 | $10.9M | $14.8M | -36.0% | -$3.3M | 391 | $1.6M | 27.9% | - |
| 2023 | $10.8M | $14.3M | -32.3% | -$2.9M | 388 | $1.7M | 23.1% | - |
| 2022 | $12.8M | $15.0M | -16.9% | -$644K | 515 | $1.7M | 25.4% | - |
| 2021 | $11.2M | $14.2M | -26.6% | -$3.0M | 429 | $1.5M | 29.5% | - |
| 2020 | $9.4M | $13.4M | -42.8% | -$2.7M | 410 | $1.5M | 40.2% | - |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 78% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 72% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 84% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 76% | US median 71% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 108 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 57% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 62% | US median 79% |
| 13 |
| $18,500.85 |
| $11,854.08 |
| $10,022.34 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 53 | 51 | $1,860.16 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 31 | 19 | $1,535.52 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | - | - | - | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $2,405.01 |
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.
Dekalb Community Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Smithville, TN with 18 beds, part of Ascension.
Dekalb Community Hospital in Smithville, TN has 18 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 71 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 376 inpatients that year, with 17.1% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Dekalb Community Hospital reported net patient revenue of $12.7M and operating expenses of $15.4M, a margin on patient care of -21.2%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$2.6M (-20.4% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Dekalb Community Hospital is part of Ascension, a health system with 58 hospitals based in Indianapolis, IN. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Dekalb Community Hospital has no overall star rating, usually because it reports too few quality measures (for example small, specialty or federal hospitals).
Yes, Dekalb Community Hospital provides emergency services.
83 Medicare clinicians list Dekalb Community Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner.
In 2024, Dekalb Community Hospital had 42 Medicare inpatient stays in 3 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 193 (simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc) with 15 stays; Medicare paid $11,871.93 per stay on average, compared with $9,867.73 across all hospitals.