Critical access hospital · Blythe, California · 19 beds · CMS certification number 051339
Palo Verde Hospital
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS August 27, 2026. Two years on file, every one shown below.
Fiscal 2025 at a glance
What stands out
- Its result from patient care: −$16.7M (2024), −$30.1M (2025).
- Medicaid paid for 1.9% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 36.3%.
- PALO VERDE HEALTH CARE DISTRICT holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
Two years of filings
Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.
settled
as submitted
Beside its peers
Critical access hospitals in California with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Verde Hospital | 19 | $30,079,523 | ||
| Orchard Hospital, Gridley | 24 | $30,388,642 | $32,327,665 | −6.4% |
| John C Fremont Healthcare District, Mariposa | 18 | $29,551,191 | $36,773,106 | −24.4% |
| Kern Valley Healthcare District, Lake Isabella | 24 | $40,903,928 | $41,667,887 | −1.9% |
| Mountains Community Hospital, Lake Arrowhead | 17 | $38,298,570 | $42,076,058 | −9.9% |
| Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital, Fortuna | 19 | $53,713,976 | $58,770,213 | −9.4% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 351S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 853S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 2.3days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 12.3%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 36.3%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 1.9%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
- PALO VERDE HEALTH CARE DISTRICT100%
Type of control on its cost report: governmental, hospital district.
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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 051339. 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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read August 27, 2026.