Prairie Ridge Hospital and Health Services

1411 Highway 79 E, Elbow Lake, MN 56531 · (218) 685-7300

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

Prairie Ridge Hospital and Health Services is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Elbow Lake, Minnesota (Grant County), with 10 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.50 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Minnesota hospital ($2.99).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$1.50listed for every $1 its care costs Minnesota typical $2.99

2 h 8 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

10beds

Quality and patient experience

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

The money

$67what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$1.9Mnet income, all sources

−1.2%margin on patient care alone

$170,516cost of charity care (1.0% of costs)

$481,442unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

76full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending September 2024. 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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