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Psychiatric hospital · Cherokee, Iowa · 36 beds · CMS certification number 164002

Cherokee Mental Health Institute

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, settled, stamped by CMS January 16, 2026. 29 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Operating expenses
$22.5M
$22,503,569 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$22.5M
−$22,503,569 · G-3 line 5

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $4.1M in its first year on file (1997) to $23.5M in 2000.
  • Its result from patient care: −$10.5M (2023), −$21.4M (2024), −$22.5M (2025).
  • Medicaid paid for 4.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 4.7%.

Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.

29 years of filings

Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
settled
$4.1M
$13.9M
1998
settled
$4.0M
$13.8M
1999
settled
$3.7M
$13.9M
2000
settled
$23.5M
$13.4M
2001
settled
not filed
$14.0M
2002
settled
not filed
$14.3M
2003
settled
not filed
$13.0M
2004
settled
not filed
$14.2M
2005
settled
not filed
$13.8M
2006
settled
not filed
$15.3M
2007
settled
not filed
not filed
2008
reopened
not filed
not filed
2009
settled
not filed
not filed
2010
settled
not filed
not filed
2011
settled
not filed
$14.2M
2012
settled
not filed
$15.8M
2013
settled
not filed
$16.4M
2014
settled
not filed
$16.5M
2015
settled
not filed
$16.5M
2016
settled
not filed
$15.9M
2017
settled
not filed
$16.4M
2018
settled
not filed
$15.3M
2019
settled
not filed
$15.3M
2020
settled
not filed
$16.6M
2021
settled
not filed
$18.1M
2022
settled
not filed
$18.4M
2023
settled
not filed
$10.5M
2024
settled
not filed
$21.4M
2025
settled
not filed
$22.5M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (psychiatric hospital), nearest in size, from Iowa first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Cherokee Mental Health Institute36$22,503,569
Clive Behavioral Health, Clive100$32,441,975$29,410,5209.3%
Community Care Hospital, New Orleans (LA)36$5,395,622$5,412,803−0.3%
Dorothea Dix Behavioral Health Center, Linville (NC)37$7,672,703$9,039,366−17.8%
Eagle View Behavioral Health, Bettendorf72$24,422,967$22,436,4038.1%
Perimeter Behavioral Hospital West Memphis, West Memphis (AR)36$7,088,278$7,206,472−1.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
165
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
13,082
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
35.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
99.3%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
4.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
4.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Indirect owner: HUMAN SERVICES-CHEROKEE

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, state.

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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 164002. 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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read January 16, 2026.