Norton Sound Regional Hospital

1000 Greg Kruschek Avenue (p O Box 966), Nome, AK 99762 · (907) 443-3311

Rural (critical access) hospitalTribalEmergency room

Norton Sound Regional Hospital is a rural critical-access hospital in Nome, Alaska, with 18 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.43 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Alaska hospital ($3.98).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$1.43listed for every $1 its care costs Alaska typical $3.98

18beds

Quality and patient experience

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Pneumonia

15.4%

COPD

8.9%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Pneumonia

17.4%

US typical hospital. Infection figures are a ratio: 1.00 means as many infections as expected for a hospital like this one. CMS adjusts these rates for how sick the patients are; a small gap from the typical hospital can be chance, so a verdict is shown only where CMS gives one.

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

The money

$70what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$44.5Mnet income, all sources

−32.9%margin on patient care alone

$536,538cost of charity care (0.5% of costs)

$55.0Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)

818full-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.