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Critical access hospital · Baker City, Oregon · 21 beds · CMS certification number 381315

Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Baker City

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 9, 2025. 22 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$32.3M
$32,260,568 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$38.0M
$37,959,529 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$5.7M
−$5,698,961 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−17.7%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $21.4M in its first year on file (2004) to $32.3M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$3.0M (2023), −$5.1M (2024), −$5.7M (2025).
  • All 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 6.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 70.1%.
  • SAINT ALPHONSUS HEALTH SYSTEM 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 with audit
$21.4M
$21.9M
2005
reopened
$21.0M
$21.1M
2006
reopened
$22.2M
$22.9M
2007
reopened
$23.1M
$25.0M
2008
reopened
$25.6M
$26.4M
2009
settled
$27.1M
$26.9M
2010
settled
$6.8M
$6.7M
2011
settled
$28.5M
$28.0M
2012
reopened
$31.0M
$30.3M
2013
settled
$29.8M
$31.6M
2014
reopened
$31.3M
$33.2M
2015
reopened
$30.1M
$32.0M
2016
reopened
$30.1M
$31.8M
2017
settled with audit
$30.7M
$32.7M
2018
settled
$32.4M
$32.2M
2019
settled
$34.7M
$36.3M
2020
settled
$35.3M
$36.5M
2021
settled
$34.7M
$35.2M
2022
settled
$35.0M
$38.8M
2023
settled
$34.1M
$37.1M
2024
settled
$33.6M
$38.7M
2025
as submitted
$32.3M
$38.0M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Oregon with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Baker City21$32,260,568$37,959,529−17.7%
Harney District Hospital, Burns24$39,104,901$42,444,290−8.5%
Lake District Hospital, Lakeview24$35,116,076$44,274,017−26.1%
Peace Harbor Medical Center, Florence21$110,054,463$113,315,661−3.0%
Pioneer Memorial Hospital, Heppner21$14,565,763$22,069,647−51.5%
Wallowa Memorial Hospital, Enterprise23$38,647,648$41,675,155−7.8%

Patients and payers

Discharges
430
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,641
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
4.5
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
21.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
70.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
6.8%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • SAINT ALPHONSUS HEALTH SYSTEM INC100%
  • TRINITY HEALTH CORPORATION100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: TRINITY HEALTH (100%), system office.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Saint Agnes Medical Center (CA), Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (CT), Johnson Memorial Hospital (CT), Saint Mary's Hospital (CT), Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital (CT), St. Francis Hospital (DE), Holy Cross Hospital (FL), St. Mary's Health Care System (GA).

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).

Community benefit, as filed

From IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, filed by SAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER - (employer identification number 271790052) for tax year 2022. The return lists this hospital as its one hospital facility.

FigureAs filedWhere it comes from
Total community benefit expense (line 7k)$2,894,396IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance at cost (line 7a)$197,019IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <FinancialAssistanceAtCostTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Medicaid (line 7b)$2,429,273IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <UnreimbursedMedicaidGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance and means-tested government programs (line 7d)$2,626,292IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalFinancialAssistanceTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Other benefits (line 7j)$268,104IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalOtherBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Total, fraction of total expense (line 7k, column f)0.0779IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><TotalExpensePct>

E-file object id 202411359349310301. The IRS archive it was read from.

Executive and director compensation, as filed

From IRS Form 990 Part VII, Section A, filed by SAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER - (employer identification number 271790052) for tax year 2022. The return lists this hospital as its one hospital facility.

NameTitleRoleReportable comp, from this organizationReportable comp, from related organizationsOther compensation
ADAM RICHINSDIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
ANABEL ORTIZ-CHAVOLLADIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
ANGELA TAYLORDIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
B LANNIE CHECKETTSTREASURER; SAHS CFOOfficer$0$557,478$66,972
BETH INECKDIRECTOR AS OF 1/23Trustee/director$0$0$0
DANIEL PUGADIRECTOR & CHAIR THROUGH 12/22Trustee/director, Officer$0$0$0
DAVID RICHARDS MDEMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIANHighest-compensated employee$541,569$0$54,452
DEREK ZICKGRAF DOFAMILY PHYSICIANHighest-compensated employee$545,797$0$48,996
DINA ELLWANGERDIRECTOR; PRESIDENT, EASTERN OREGONTrustee/director, Officer$0$315,112$80,447
ERIC JOHNSON DOSURGEONHighest-compensated employee$210,361$0$20,640
GERALDINE HOYLER CSCDIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
JEAN BASOMFRMR KE; REG DIR SUPPLY CHN THR 8/22Former$0$204,647$100,093
JESSE JARNESANESTHESIOLOGISTHighest-compensated employee$335,189$0$46,700
KAARE TINGELSTAD DOEMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIANHighest-compensated employee$317,175$0$48,727
KIRK JACOBSONDIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
LAURA ALVAREZ SCHRAGDIRECTOR THROUGH 12/22Trustee/director$0$0$0
MARIE GUADALUPE WISSELDIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
MICHAEL BALLANTYNEDIRECTOR; CHAIR AS OF 1/23Trustee/director, Officer$0$0$0
MICHAEL COUGHLIN MDDIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
ODETTE BOLANODIRECTOR; PRES SAHS; CEO WEST REGIONTrustee/director, Officer$0$1,142,266$223,555
ROBERT LADENBURGERDIRECTOR AS OF 1/23Trustee/director$0$0$0
STEPHANIE WESTERMEIERSECRETARY; SAHS VP & MANAGING CNSLOfficer$0$493,999$114,326
SUSAN MORRISDIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
SUZANNE BRENNAN CSCDIRECTORTrustee/director$0$0$0
TONI NIELSENDIRECTOR; VICE CHAIR AS OF 1/23Trustee/director, Officer$0$0$0
VICKEN GARABEDIAN MDDIRECTOR THROUGH 12/22Trustee/director$0$0$0

E-file object id 202411359349310301. The IRS archive it was read from.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 381315. 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 December 9, 2025.