Becker's Healthcare July 29, 2021
Four major for-profit hospital operators posted mixed results for the second quarter of 2021.
1. Community Health Systems, an 84-hospital system based in Franklin, Tenn., ended the second quarter of this year with net income of $6 million on revenues of $3 billion, compared to net income of $70 million on revenues of $2.5 billion in the same period a year earlier. On a same-hospital basis, admissions were up 17 percent compared to the second quarter of 2020.
2. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare posted revenues of $14.4 billion in the second quarter of this year, up from $11.1 billion in the same period a year earlier. The 186-hospital system ended the second quarter of 2021 with net income...