133 Fairfield Street, Saint Albans, VT, 05478 · (802) 524-5911
Beds
53
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$128.1M
FY 2025
Net income
$3.1M
Patient care margin -15.7%
Discharges
2,441
Occupancy 49.5%
Clinicians
536
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 | $128.1M | $148.1M | -15.7% | $3.1M | 2,441 | $8.7M | 38.9% | 17.5% |
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 | 9.1% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 10.9% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 12.6% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.8% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.1% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 17.5% | 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 | $109.1M | $136.3M | -24.9% | $12.9M | 2,237 | $4.1M | 35.1% | 21.6% |
| 2023 | $97.1M | $131.5M | -35.4% | $1.6M | 2,301 | $3.2M | 35.7% | 21.5% |
| 2022 | $93.4M | $126.8M | -35.8% | -$11.7M | 2,130 | $3.7M | 39.0% | 29.6% |
| 2021 | $97.7M | $122.8M | -25.7% | $16.2M | 2,104 | $3.2M | 47.8% | 18.1% |
| 2020 | $76.9M | $119.4M | -55.2% | -$1.4M | 2,254 | $3.1M | 49.6% | 25.5% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.7% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.5% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.5% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.18 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.63 | US median 0.28 |
| 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 | 81% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 80% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 56% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 72% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 67% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 68% | 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) | 175 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 15% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 63% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 79% | US median 79% |
| 37 |
| $22,210.32 |
| $13,022.27 |
| $9,973.97 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 37 | $21,861.54 | $13,964.35 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 30 | $17,789.67 | $10,689.90 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 25 | $18,246.92 | $9,937.88 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 24 | $20,389.79 | $17,793.79 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 281 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH CC | 23 | $10,584.57 | $9,604.74 | $6,648.56 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 19 | $22,117.42 | $10,343.32 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 389 GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION WITH CC | 18 | $17,448.50 | $7,952.89 | $5,697.23 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 18 | $13,820.78 | $9,091.33 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 17 | $38,680.71 | $22,092.18 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 330 MAJOR SMALL AND LARGE BOWEL PROCEDURES WITH CC | 15 | $50,027.33 | $25,838.07 | $18,026.21 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 15 | $16,756.27 | $9,797.27 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 15 | $17,921.73 | $16,876.93 | $12,400.10 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 262 | 157 | $404.96 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 92 | 87 | $4,350.98 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 92 | 67 | $118.73 | $502.15 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 57 | 52 | $1,632.80 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 41 | 39 | $610.34 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 34 | 34 | $1,836.78 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 30 | 26 | $497.01 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 28 | 28 | $449.06 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | 26 | 26 | $617.23 | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 24 | 24 | $313.35 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 21 | 21 | $732.25 | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 21 | 20 | $490.35 | $1,444.50 |
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.
Northwestern Medical Center Inc is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Saint Albans, VT with 53 beds and a 4-star overall rating.
Northwestern Medical Center Inc in Saint Albans, VT has 53 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 70 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 2,441 inpatients that year, with 49.5% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Northwestern Medical Center Inc reported net patient revenue of $128.1M and operating expenses of $148.1M, a margin on patient care of -15.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was $3.1M (2.1% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Northwestern Medical Center Inc is not part of a multi-hospital health system in the official ownership records. It is a nonprofit hospital (Nonprofit (other)).
Northwestern Medical Center Inc has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 0 death rate measures are better and 1 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Northwestern Medical Center Inc provides emergency services.
536 Medicare clinicians list Northwestern Medical Center Inc as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Northwestern Medical Center Inc had 501 Medicare inpatient stays in 21 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 71 stays; Medicare paid $21,198.69 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.