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Short-term acute care hospital · Chicago, Illinois · 122 beds · CMS certification number 140181

South Shore Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 22, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$37.0M
$37,000,229 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$52.4M
$52,403,876 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$15.4M
−$15,403,647 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−41.6%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $29.6M in its first year on file (1996) to $37.0M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$14.5M (2023), −$14.3M (2024), −$15.4M (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 2.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 30.1%.

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
settled
$29.6M
$31.4M
1997
reopened
$28.9M
$30.4M
1998
reopened
$31.1M
$30.6M
1999
reopened
$33.2M
$33.7M
2000
settled
$32.3M
$33.4M
2001
reopened
$35.8M
$36.4M
2002
settled
$36.4M
$37.3M
2003
reopened
$38.7M
$39.9M
2004
reopened
$39.4M
$41.6M
2005
reopened
$40.7M
$44.0M
2006
reopened
$42.8M
$42.6M
2007
reopened
$43.5M
$45.6M
2008
reopened
$46.2M
$48.8M
2009
reopened
$46.2M
$47.9M
2010
reopened
$42.8M
$46.1M
2011
reopened
$41.1M
$43.5M
2012
reopened
$35.8M
$41.9M
2013
reopened
$39.2M
$45.2M
2014
settled
$42.3M
$44.6M
2015
settled
$43.8M
$45.9M
2016
settled
$41.9M
$48.4M
2017
settled
$40.4M
$44.5M
2018
settled
$36.8M
$41.5M
2019
settled
$35.6M
$39.5M
2020
settled
$35.5M
$45.0M
2021
settled
$34.8M
$46.6M
2022
settled
$33.1M
$47.9M
2023
settled
$35.1M
$49.6M
2024
settled
$35.2M
$49.6M
2025
as submitted
$37.0M
$52.4M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
South Shore Hospital122$37,000,229$52,403,876−41.6%
Alton Memorial Hospital, Alton130$217,774,873$215,786,9280.9%
Loretto Hospital, Chicago122$43,811,046$76,200,513−73.9%
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon, Mt. Vernon123$314,386,094$286,048,8189.0%
Touchette Regional Hospital, Centreville122$63,997,689$79,278,514−23.9%
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Glenoaks, Glendale Heights124$132,884,154$149,779,723−12.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
1,782
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
13,639
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
37.5
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
30.6%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
30.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
2.8%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

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

Community benefit, as filed

From IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, filed by South Shore Hospital Corporation (employer identification number 361799520) for tax year 2023. The return lists this hospital as its one hospital facility.

FigureAs filedWhere it comes from
Total community benefit expense (line 7k)$8,986,842IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance at cost (line 7a)$332,248IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <FinancialAssistanceAtCostTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Medicaid (line 7b)$8,607,809IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <UnreimbursedMedicaidGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance and means-tested government programs (line 7d)$8,940,057IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalFinancialAssistanceTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Other benefits (line 7j)$46,785IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalOtherBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Total, fraction of total expense (line 7k, column f)0.1847IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><TotalExpensePct>

E-file object id 202433169349304948. The IRS archive it was read from.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 140181. 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 June 22, 2026.