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Short-term acute care hospital · Quincy, Illinois · 311 beds · CMS certification number 140015

Blessing Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 12, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$666.4M
$666,351,471 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$755.8M
$755,789,520 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$89.4M
−$89,438,049 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−13.4%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $82.1M in its first year on file (1996) to $666.4M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$54.8M (2023), −$73.4M (2024), −$89.4M (2025).
  • 2 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 2.4% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 32.6%.

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

30 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
reopened
$82.1M
$83.5M
1997
reopened
$88.3M
$89.9M
1998
settled
$90.6M
$92.8M
1999
reopened
$99.3M
$101.7M
2000
reopened
$111.2M
$115.1M
2001
reopened
$124.3M
$127.5M
2002
reopened
$133.9M
$138.0M
2003
reopened
$138.9M
$149.2M
2004
settled
$153.8M
$156.6M
2005
reopened
$164.2M
$173.5M
2006
reopened
$187.3M
$189.9M
2007
reopened
$217.5M
$217.8M
2008
reopened
$228.5M
$231.8M
2009
reopened
$263.9M
$260.9M
2010
reopened
$267.3M
$265.2M
2011
reopened
$263.2M
$263.7M
2012
reopened
$292.4M
$291.8M
2013
reopened
$280.1M
$277.4M
2014
reopened
$289.1M
$288.3M
2015
reopened
$316.3M
$316.6M
2016
reopened
$327.9M
$321.3M
2017
reopened
$362.7M
$351.6M
2018
reopened
$408.3M
$390.4M
2019
settled with audit
$411.5M
$403.0M
2020
settled
$432.8M
$440.8M
2021
settled with audit
$500.8M
$524.9M
2022
settled
$522.4M
$591.3M
2023
amended
$562.0M
$616.8M
2024
amended
$621.9M
$695.3M
2025
as submitted
$666.4M
$755.8M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Blessing Hospital311$666,351,471$755,789,520−13.4%
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove293$554,503,787$492,544,19111.2%
Memorial Hospital, Belleville300$579,195,047$570,580,7921.5%
Palos Community Hospital, Orland Park318$485,666,863$600,874,624−23.7%
Silver Cross Hospital & Medical Centers, New Lenox320$571,400,747$556,370,5822.6%
St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates313$374,002,335$420,384,939−12.4%

Patients and payers

Discharges
13,459
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
64,516
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
177.2
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
56.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
32.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
2.4%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: DENMAN SERVICES, laundry; BLESSING FOUND, fund raising; BLESS CORP SVCS, home office; ILLINI COMM HOS, hospital.

Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, other.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 140015. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read March 12, 2026.