Appleton Area Health
30 S Behl St, Appleton, MN 56208 · (320) 289-1580
Appleton Area Health is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Appleton, Minnesota (Swift County), with 15 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.31 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Minnesota hospital ($2.99).
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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$1.31listed for every $1 its care costs Minnesota typical $2.99
2 h 17 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
15beds
Quality and patient experience
Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.
The money
$76what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$884,732net income, all sources
−17.0%margin on patient care alone
$27,805cost of charity care (0.1% of costs)
$717,559unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
89full-time staff (equivalent)
From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending September 2024.
Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. The hospital publishes them on its own price page.
This hospital has no Medicare stay data for 2024. Medicare data covers mostly patients 65 and older, so psychiatric, children's and very small hospitals often don't appear.
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