Benchmarks for Hospital Profit Margin and Cash-to-Debt Ratio by Facility Size

Here are benchmarks for operating profit margins and cash-to-total-debt ratios, broken down by hospital size, for hospitals honored as the nation’s top 100 hospitals by Thomson’s National Benchmarks for Success program.

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By: Staff

Large community hospitals (250 or more acute-care beds in service)
Operating profit margin — 10.13 percent
Cash-to-total-debt ratio — 0.97

Medium community hospitals (100 to 249 acute-care beds)
Operating profit margin — 10.81 percent
Cash-to-total-debt ratio — 0.82

Small community hospitals (25 to 99 acute-care beds)
Operating profit margin — 11.25 percent
Cash-to-total-debt ratio — 1.11

Major teaching hospitals (400 or more acute-care beds)
Operating profit margin — 5.57 percent
Cash-to-total-debt ratio — 0.92

Teaching hospitals (200 or more acute care beds)
Operating profit margin — 12.42 percent
Cash-to-total-debt ratio — 0.83

The national list of top-performing hospitals includes 15 major teaching hospitals, 25 teaching hospitals, 20 large community hospitals, 20 medium community hospitals and 20 small community hospitals. Data for the 2008 report are as of 2006. Learn more at www.100TopHospitals.com.

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