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Critical access hospital · Garberville, California · 9 beds · CMS certification number 051309

Jerold Phelps Community Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, settled, stamped by CMS May 7, 2026. 24 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$19.0M
$19,004,712 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$33.7M
$33,684,922 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$14.7M
−$14,680,210 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−77.3%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $807K in its first year on file (2002) to $19.0M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$12.9M (2023), −$9.7M (2024), −$14.7M (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.

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

24 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2002
reopened
$807K
$1.4M
2003
reopened
$2.9M
$4.0M
2004
settled
$3.8M
$4.2M
2005
settled
$4.0M
$4.5M
2006
as submitted
$4.4M
$4.9M
2007
reopened
$4.8M
$5.4M
2008
settled
$5.2M
$5.9M
2009
settled
$4.7M
$6.0M
2010
settled
$4.3M
$5.3M
2011
settled
$4.3M
$5.7M
2012
settled
$5.7M
$6.4M
2013
settled
$5.5M
$6.8M
2014
settled
$6.1M
$7.4M
2015
settled
$7.9M
$7.9M
2016
settled
$8.3M
$9.3M
2017
settled
$7.3M
$10.8M
2018
settled
$5.2M
$11.8M
2019
settled
$7.4M
$12.4M
2020
reopened
$10.6M
$14.5M
2021
settled
$10.0M
$17.1M
2022
settled
$12.4M
$20.0M
2023
settled
$12.8M
$25.7M
2024
settled
$17.9M
$27.6M
2025
settled
$19.0M
$33.7M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in California with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Jerold Phelps Community Hospital9$19,004,712$33,684,922−77.3%
Bear Valley Community Health Care District, Big Bear9$36,274,713$42,818,810−18.0%
Eastern Plumas Health Care, Portola9$44,083,538$42,648,2723.3%
George L. Mee Memorial Hospital, King City13$77,584,924$73,252,9095.6%
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital, Solvang11$35,481,052$30,817,17413.1%
Seneca Hospital, Chester10$26,886,069$23,213,21113.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
21
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,135
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
3.1
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
34.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
67.3%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, hospital district.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 051309. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read May 7, 2026.