Short-term acute care hospital · Fort Myers, Florida · 621 beds · CMS certification number 100220
Gulf Coast Medical Center
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 5, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below.
Fiscal 2025 at a glance
What stands out
- Net patient revenue rose from $189.5M in its first year on file (1996) to $821.4M in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: $138.6M (2023), $244.6M (2024), $86.6M (2025).
- 2 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
- Medicaid paid for 6.9% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 29.0%.
- LEE HEALTH SYSTEM INC holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
30 years of filings
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Beside its peers
Short-term acute care hospitals in Florida with 400 and over beds, each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Medical Center | 621 | $821,414,126 | $734,817,012 | 10.5% |
| Adventhealth Tampa, Tampa | 596 | $1,153,497,556 | $1,089,786,530 | 5.5% |
| Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, Pensacola | 583 | $1,227,640,929 | $1,230,850,283 | −0.3% |
| HCA Florida JFK Hospital, Atlantis | 644 | $776,832,476 | $636,341,035 | 18.1% |
| Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers | 697 | $1,441,787,527 | $1,469,762,538 | −1.9% |
| Northshore Medical Center, Miami | 748 | $190,036,585 | $278,844,295 | −46.7% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 32,359S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 174,107S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 522.8days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 83.9%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 29.0%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 6.9%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
- LEE HEALTH SYSTEM INC100%
Related organizations on its own cost report: GCMC (100%), acute care; LMH SYSTEM (100%), medical supplie.
Other hospitals with the same owner: Cape Coral Hospital (FL), Rehabilitation Hospital of Cape Coral (FL).
Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, other.
Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).
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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 100220. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing. Ownership: CMS Hospital All Owners and Hospital Enrollments.
How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read March 5, 2026.