Mercyone Oelwein Medical Center

201 Eighth Avenue SE, Oelwein, IA 50662 · (319) 283-6000

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateEmergency room

Mercyone Oelwein Medical Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Oelwein, Iowa (Fayette County), with 17 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.15 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Iowa hospital ($3.72).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$2.15listed for every $1 its care costs Iowa typical $3.72

2 h 3 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

17beds

Quality and patient experience

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.

The money

$47what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$3.5Mnet income, all sources

17.2%margin on patient care alone

$206,253cost of charity care (1.3% of costs)

$637,481unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

63full-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.

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