The hospital, which is roughly $21 million in debt, had a total margin goal of 4 percent but only hit 1.5 percent. In the past six and a half years, OMC has only hit the 4 percent mark once, the report said.
These financial difficulties are one of the reasons OMC is in affiliation talks with Seattle-based Swedish Medical Center.
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