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Short-term acute care hospital · Waukegan, Illinois · 166 beds · CMS certification number 140084

Vista Medical Center East

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended November 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS May 8, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$75.7M
$75,682,954 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$136.9M
$136,861,703 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$61.2M
−$61,178,749 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−80.8%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $68.6M in its first year on file (1996) to $75.7M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$19.9M (2023), −$38.9M (2024), −$61.2M (2025).
  • 4 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.
  • AHS VISTA LLC holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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
$68.6M
$68.9M
1997
reopened
$66.8M
$67.8M
1998
reopened
$63.0M
$68.0M
1999
settled
$64.4M
$68.7M
2000
settled
$61.5M
$67.4M
2001
settled
$61.6M
$67.1M
2002
settled
$68.2M
$77.2M
2003
settled
$74.9M
$81.9M
2004
settled
$80.5M
$88.6M
2005
reopened
$102.5M
$105.8M
2006
reopened
$58.8M
$56.8M
2007
reopened
$150.5M
$144.6M
2008
reopened
$159.6M
$151.0M
2009
reopened
$160.7M
$153.8M
2010
reopened
$160.1M
$154.5M
2011
reopened
$174.8M
$178.4M
2012
reopened
$172.2M
$180.3M
2013
reopened
$185.6M
$193.9M
2014
reopened
$200.2M
$199.0M
2015
settled
$178.8M
$190.5M
2016
reopened
$154.7M
$160.3M
2017
settled
$149.2M
$153.2M
2018
settled
$160.2M
$152.6M
2019
settled
$152.8M
$145.2M
2020
settled
$144.1M
$149.9M
2021
settled
$143.2M
$160.6M
2022
settled
$139.5M
$170.2M
2023
settled
$139.4M
$159.3M
2024
settled
$98.3M
$137.2M
2025
as submitted
$75.7M
$136.9M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Illinois with 100 to 199 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Vista Medical Center East166$75,682,954$136,861,703−80.8%
Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, Carbondale175$393,571,298$313,734,60620.3%
Humboldt Park Health, Chicago173$77,776,929$157,711,609−102.8%
St. Mary's Hospital, Kankakee169$119,100,329$139,847,870−17.4%
Thorek Memorial Hospital, Chicago156$62,384,523$83,004,904−33.1%
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth la Grange, Lagrange159$242,992,918$257,580,518−6.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
4,146
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
21,168
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
58.2
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
34.9%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
24.3%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • AHS VISTA LLC100%
  • AMERICAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS CORP INC100%
  • MIKE M SARIAN100%
  • WAUKEGAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION100%

Other hospitals with the same owner: Gateway Regional Medical Center (IL), Randolph Health (NC), Ahs Sherman Medical Center (TX).

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 140084. 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 8, 2026.