Psychiatric hospital · Linville, North Carolina · 37 beds · CMS certification number 344034
Dorothea Dix Behavioral Health Center
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, settled, stamped by CMS January 7, 2026. Four years on file, every one shown below.
Fiscal 2025 at a glance
What stands out
- Net patient revenue rose from $3.0M in its first year on file (2022) to $7.7M in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: −$5.9M (2023), −$1.0M (2024), −$1.4M (2025).
- 4 of the 5 psychiatric hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
- Medicaid paid for 15.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 4.2%.
- APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
Four years of filings
Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.
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Beside its peers
Hospitals of the same type (psychiatric hospital), nearest in size, from North Carolina first; each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothea Dix Behavioral Health Center | 37 | $7,672,703 | $9,039,366 | −17.8% |
| Good Hope Hospital, Erwin | 16 | $2,468,079 | $3,027,061 | −22.7% |
| Iredell Davis Behavioral Health Hospital, Statesville | 42 | $9,289,306 | $14,446,590 | −55.5% |
| JFK Adatc, Black Mountain | 80 | $42,032,829 | $34,697,918 | 17.4% |
| Triangle Springs, Raleigh | 77 | $14,085,122 | $26,186,928 | −85.9% |
| Walter B Jones Center Lakeside Psychiatric Hospital, Greenville | 51 | $1,299,401 | $15,162,993 | −1066.9% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 858S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 5,885S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 16.2days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 43.6%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 4.2%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 15.6%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
- APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC100%
Related organizations on its own cost report: APPALACHIAN REG, home office; CANNON MEMORIAL, hospital.
Other hospitals with the same owner: Watauga Medical Center (NC), Charles A Cannon Jr Memorial Hospital (NC).
Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, other.
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 344034. 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 January 7, 2026.