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Short-term acute care hospital · Defiance, Ohio · 23 beds · CMS certification number 360270

Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 26, 2026. 22 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$60.6M
$60,606,004 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$61.4M
$61,372,396 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$766K
−$766,392 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−1.3%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $1.2M in its first year on file (2004) to $60.6M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$6.2M (2023), −$1.6M (2024), −$766K (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 1.1% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 34.0%.
  • BON SECOURS MERCY HEALTH INC holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

22 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2004
settled
$1.2M
$1.8M
2005
settled
$8.7M
$8.0M
2006
settled
$14.8M
$14.8M
2007
settled
$18.3M
$16.9M
2008
reopened
$19.6M
$18.5M
2009
reopened
$20.4M
$19.7M
2010
settled
$20.4M
$19.7M
2011
settled
$22.9M
$20.0M
2012
settled
$24.4M
$20.3M
2013
settled
$23.2M
$19.9M
2014
reopened
$23.8M
$19.2M
2015
reopened
$23.0M
$19.3M
2016
settled
$24.4M
$21.3M
2017
settled
$29.3M
$23.4M
2018
settled
$35.4M
$29.8M
2019
settled
$40.0M
$33.2M
2020
settled
$45.3M
$46.2M
2021
settled
$53.2M
$53.4M
2022
settled
$50.4M
$58.1M
2023
settled
$51.6M
$57.7M
2024
as submitted
$57.6M
$59.2M
2025
as submitted
$60.6M
$61.4M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Ohio with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital23$60,606,004$61,372,396−1.3%
Diley Ridge Medical Center, Canal Winchester10$27,357,545$16,016,41241.5%
Kettering Health Greene Memorial, Xenia13$36,592,577$37,743,217−3.1%
Lake Health Beachwood Medical Center, Beachwood24$72,089,065$70,003,6722.9%
Ohio Valley Surgical Hospital, Springfield24$51,572,694$58,137,795−12.7%
The Surgical Hospital at Southwoods, Youngstown24$234,935,745$225,550,4784.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
1,039
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
2,551
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
7.0
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
30.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
34.0%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
1.1%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • BON SECOURS MERCY HEALTH INC100%
  • MERCY HEALTH NORTH LLC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: BSMH, corp office.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Mercy Health-Lourdes Hospital (KY), Mercy Health-Marcum and Wallace Hospital (KY), Mercy Health - Anderson Hospital (OH), The Jewish Hospital - Mercy Health (OH), Mercy Health - Fairfield Hospital (OH), MH St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital (OH), Mercy Health-St. Rita's Medical Center (OH), Mercy Health - Springfield Regional Medical Center (OH), Mercy Health - Tiffin Hospital (OH), Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center (OH).

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

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 360270. 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 June 26, 2026.