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Critical access hospital · Erin, Tennessee · 25 beds · CMS certification number 441322

Houston County Community Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 11, 2026. Eight years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$53.2M
$53,219,886 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$60.2M
$60,208,598 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$7.0M
−$6,988,712 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−13.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $1.6M in its first year on file (2018) to $53.2M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$21.5M (2023), −$9.2M (2024), −$7.0M (2025).
  • 2 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • BRADEN HEALTH INC holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

Eight years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2018
settled
$1.6M
$1.3M
2019
settled
$5.0M
$7.8M
2020
settled with audit
$6.5M
$7.8M
2021
settled
$10.8M
$14.2M
2022
settled
$13.1M
$11.7M
2023
settled with audit
$14.8M
$36.3M
2024
as submitted
$45.4M
$54.6M
2025
as submitted
$53.2M
$60.2M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Tennessee with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Houston County Community Hospital25$53,219,886$60,208,598−13.1%
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers, Waverly25$11,463,931$14,004,448−22.2%
Erlanger Health, Pikeville25$31,621,972$19,462,54238.5%
Macon Community Hospital, Lafayette25$28,030,982$24,167,20413.8%
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman, Centerville25$15,355,152$19,750,217−28.6%
Highpoint Health - Trousdale With Ascension Saint Thomas, Hartsville25$15,717,811$12,707,15319.1%

Patients and payers

Discharges
111
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
4,975
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
13.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
54.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
99.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • BRADEN HEALTH INC100%

Indirect owners: BEAU R BRADEN; BROOKS BRADEN

Related organizations on its own cost report: BRADEN HEALTH, private; HENDERSON, acute care hosp.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Henderson County Community Hospital (TN), Haywood County Community Hospital (TN).

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, county.

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 441322. 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 11, 2026.