Sanford Wheaton Medical Center

401 12th Street North, Wheaton, MN 56296 · (320) 563-8226

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateNo emergency room

Sanford Wheaton Medical Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Wheaton, Minnesota (Traverse County), with 15 beds. It has no emergency room. It lists $1.63 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Minnesota hospital ($2.99).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$1.63listed for every $1 its care costs Minnesota typical $2.99

1 h 43 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

15beds

Quality and patient experience

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

The money

$61what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$2.0Mnet income, all sources

5.5%margin on patient care alone

$344,929cost of charity care (3.3% of costs)

$192,591unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

38full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 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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