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Short-term acute care hospital · Springdale, Arkansas · 309 beds · CMS certification number 040022

Northwest Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended October 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS May 6, 2026. 29 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$309.4M
$309,432,216 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$320.7M
$320,672,088 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$11.2M
−$11,239,872 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−3.6%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $83.8M in its first year on file (1997) to $309.4M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $5.5M (2023), $5.0M (2024), −$11.2M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 11.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 13.5%.
  • CHS COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.

29 years of filings

Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
settled with audit
$83.8M
$89.4M
1998
reopened
$86.7M
$87.1M
1999
reopened
$101.2M
$105.3M
2000
reopened
$112.0M
$112.5M
2001
reopened
$119.2M
$114.3M
2002
reopened
$235.9M
$106.3M
2003
reopened
$126.4M
$124.2M
2004
reopened
$136.5M
$123.5M
2005
reopened
$123.4M
$116.8M
2006
reopened
$115.7M
$105.6M
2007
reopened
$131.9M
$110.6M
2008
reopened
$229.9M
$172.6M
2009
reopened
$275.5M
$248.9M
2010
reopened
$288.9M
$275.4M
2011
reopened
$360.3M
$322.9M
2012
reopened
$375.4M
$350.3M
2013
reopened
$368.1M
$367.1M
2014
reopened
$323.1M
$309.8M
2015
reopened
$337.6M
$290.7M
2016
reopened
$261.8M
$230.5M
2017
reopened
$260.6M
$228.1M
2018
reopened
$266.0M
$234.6M
2019
reopened
$264.0M
$243.6M
2020
settled
$249.5M
$230.7M
2021
settled
$300.3M
$268.0M
2022
settled
$293.1M
$291.0M
2023
settled
$300.5M
$295.1M
2024
amended
$291.4M
$286.4M
2025
as submitted
$309.4M
$320.7M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Arkansas with 200 to 399 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Northwest Medical Center309$309,432,216$320,672,088−3.6%
Baptist Health - Fort Smith, Fort Smith278$275,480,526$319,381,229−15.9%
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith, Fort Smith286$525,954,140$455,155,17213.5%
St. Bernards Medical Center, Jonesboro393$534,919,915$629,132,730−17.6%
CHI St. Vincent Infirmary, Little Rock338$411,933,756$548,155,396−33.1%
Washington Regional Medical Center, Fayetteville377$437,296,344$429,684,7191.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
14,283
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
60,756
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
166.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
52.7%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
13.5%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
11.8%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • CHS COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC100%
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC100%
  • HMA-TRI HOLDINGS LLC100%
  • TENNYSON HOLDINGS LLC100%
  • TRIAD HEALTHCARE LLC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS, hospital corporation; PASI, collection service; PPSI, collection serv.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Gadsden Regional Medical Center (AL), Medical Center Enterprise (AL), Flowers Hospital (AL), Baldwin Health (AL), Grandview Medical Center (AL), Crestwood Medical Center (AL), Mat-Su Regional Medical Center (AK).

Type of control on its cost report: proprietary, corporation.

Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 040022. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing. Ownership: CMS Hospital All Owners and Hospital Enrollments.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read May 6, 2026.