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Riverwood Healthcare Center

200 Bunker Hill Drive, Aitkin, MN 56431 · (218) 927-5501

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

Riverwood Healthcare Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Aitkin, Minnesota (Aitkin County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. In CMS's patient survey it scores 5 of 5 stars, and 88% of patients said they would definitely recommend it. It lists $2.33 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Minnesota hospital ($2.99).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
★★★★★patients' own rating (160 surveys)
$2.33listed for every $1 its care costs Minnesota typical $2.99
1 h 36 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

★★★★★5 of 5 · 160 surveys

88%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
85%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

  • Nurses communicated well★★★★★
  • Doctors communicated well★★★★★
  • Staff explained medicines★★★★★
  • Information for going home★★★★★
  • Room was clean★★★★★
  • Quiet at night★★★★★

Emergency room and urgent care

1 h 36 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
3%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%

ER volume: low.

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Heart failure
12.4%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Heart failure
20.7%
Pneumonia
17.3%

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 September 2025.

The money

$43what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$5.0Mnet income, all sources
−8.2%margin on patient care alone
$288,956cost of charity care (0.3% of costs)
$1.4Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
332full-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. Every US hospital must publish them; search the hospital's website for "price transparency" or "standard charges".

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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