Essentia Health Northern Pines Medical Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Aurora, Minnesota (St. Louis County), with 16 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.66 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Minnesota hospital ($2.99).
$1.66listed for every $1 its care costs Minnesota typical $2.99
1 h 52 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
16beds
Quality and patient experience
What patients say
81%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
86%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%
Rated by patients
Emergency room and urgent care
1 h 52 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
0%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%
79%of sepsis patients got the recommended care US typical 65%
ER volume: low.
Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.
The money
$60what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$4.0Mnet income, all sources
7.2%margin on patient care alone
$211,271cost of charity care (0.9% of costs)
$470,758unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
81full-time staff (equivalent)
From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025. Non-profit hospitals must have a financial assistance (charity care) policy; ask for it if a bill is hard to pay.
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.