2000 South Palestine St, Athens, TX, 75751 · (903) 676-1000
Beds
127
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$120.2M
FY 2025
Net income
$20.0M
Patient care margin 13.5%
Discharges
4,850
Occupancy 37.0%
Clinicians
348
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 | $120.2M | $104.0M | 13.5% | $20.0M | 4,850 | $10.2M | 23.6% | 0.1% |
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 | 7.9% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 12% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 14.8% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 17% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 11.9% | US median 11.6% |
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 | $127.9M | $102.1M | 20.2% | $26.0M | 4,536 | $11.5M | 24.4% | 1.1% |
| 2023 | $119.3M | $98.8M | 17.2% | $21.1M | 4,679 | $10.7M | 25.1% | 1.4% |
| 2022 | $107.6M | $100.0M | 7.1% | $21.8M | 6,180 | $12.4M | 25.8% | 1.0% |
| 2021 | $122.6M | $106.3M | 13.3% | $14.9M | 4,827 | $11.8M | 33.0% | 1.5% |
| 2020 | $127.5M | $108.2M | 15.1% | $19.9M | 6,062 | $13.4M | 33.3% | 2.3% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.2% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.4% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22.8% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.4% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.94 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.14 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 1.99 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.72 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 84% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 82% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 69% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 72% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 75% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 72% | 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) | 155 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 16% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 80% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 66% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 60% | US median 74% |
| 43 |
| $80,781.56 |
| $10,540.67 |
| $12,400.10 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 41 | $50,644.83 | $8,402.95 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 37 | $63,701.49 | $7,040.68 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 35 | $43,243.51 | $5,614.97 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 32 | $64,934.88 | $9,203.75 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 194 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH CC | 28 | $47,263.07 | $5,815.64 | $5,880.23 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 27 | $47,564.70 | $5,653.19 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 26 | $93,166.50 | $10,362.92 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 21 | $49,672.05 | $5,596.62 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 281 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH CC | 21 | $44,316.14 | $6,535.05 | $6,648.56 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 19 | $53,231.11 | $6,449.84 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 18 | $99,161.94 | $9,144.28 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 18 | $89,016.78 | $12,001.89 | $13,076.55 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 94 | 93 | $1,939.72 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 85 | 79 | $3,619.53 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 63 | 51 | $2,419.37 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 47 | 41 | $1,337.49 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | 31 | 31 | $2,479.14 | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 23 | 23 | $3,979.21 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 20 | 20 | $2,285.43 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 16 | 14 | $2,030.73 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 16 | 13 | $1,460.40 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 13 | - | $1,384.38 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 13 | 13 | $4,734.92 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5163 Level 3 ENT Procedures | - | - | - | $1,105.91 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker Corporation SYK | 7 | $6,263 |
| Carter Bloodcare | 3 | $450 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $174 |
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.
UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital is a for-profit short-term acute care hospital in Athens, TX with 127 beds, part of Ardent Health and a 2-star overall rating.
UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital in Athens, TX has 127 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 100 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 4,850 inpatients that year, with 37.0% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-04-30), UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital reported net patient revenue of $120.2M and operating expenses of $104.0M, a margin on patient care of 13.5%. After other income and expenses its net income was $20.0M (16.1% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital is part of Ardent Health (listed company, ticker ARDT), a health system with 28 hospitals based in Brentwood, TN. It is a for-profit hospital.
UT Health East Texas Athens 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. 0 death rate measures are better and 1 worse than the national rate.
Yes, UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital provides emergency services.
348 Medicare clinicians list UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology.
In 2024, UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital had 603 Medicare inpatient stays in 18 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 119 stays; Medicare paid $13,022.77 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $6,886 in payments to UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital as a teaching hospital ($6,886 general and - for research) from 3 companies.