Hospital · Short-term acute hospital
Who owns Blue Ridge Healthcare Hospitals, Inc?
2201 S Sterling St · Morganton, NC · 28655
Overview
Beds159
Discharges8,133cost report 2025
Occupancy66%inpatient days ÷ bed days
Employees (FTE)1,441
Blue Ridge Healthcare Hospitals, Inc is a short-term acute hospital in Morganton, North Carolina, operated by UNC Health Care System. Burke County has 2 hospitals, 4 nursing homes and 4 urgent care centers.
Ownership
Blue Ridge Healthcare Hospitals, Inc is operated by UNC Health Care System.
- Operator
- UNC Health Care System
- Ownership type
- Private For Profit
- Sources
- CMS record · 2024
- Owner review decisions (data/review/decisions.jsonl) · 2026-10-26
Ownership history
Every dated change of operator and owner for Blue Ridge Healthcare Hospitals, Inc, with the source for each.
Finances
From the hospital's Medicare cost report, fiscal year ending 2025.
| Net patient revenue | $332.2M |
| Operating expenses | $313.3M |
| Net income | $63.2M |
| Net income as a share of net patient revenue | 19.0% |
| Uncompensated care cost | $14.3M |
| Charity care cost | $9.4M |
| Medicaid net revenue | $45.1M |
| Medicare disproportionate share percentage | 20.0% |
Payer mix by inpatient days (2025)
- Commercial and other 79.9%
- Medicare 17.9%
- Medicaid 2.2%
Services
Top inpatient services, Medicare (2024)
| Service | Discharges | Average total payment |
|---|---|---|
| Septicemia or severe sepsis without MV >96 hours with MCC · 871 | 194 | $15K |
| Heart failure and shock with MCC · 291 | 81 | $11K |
| Respiratory infections and inflammations with MCC · 177 | 58 | $14K |
| Psychoses · 885 | 45 | $13K |
| Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with MCC · 193 | 42 | $11K |
Top outpatient services, Medicare (2024)
| Service | Services |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive Observation Services · 8011 | 189 |
| Level 2 Upper GI Procedures · 5302 | 111 |
| Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage · 5072 | 94 |
| Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures · 5114 | 93 |
| Level 1 Nerve Procedures · 5431 | 84 |
Medicare fee-for-service only. Small counts are suppressed by CMS.
Location and market
- Address
- 2201 S Sterling St · Morganton, NC · 28655
- County
- Burke County
- State
- North Carolina
Hospitals in the county2
Nursing homes4
Urgent care centers4
1 off-site locations
Campuses, off-site emergency departments and outpatient departments under this hospital's certification.
Nearby hospitals
| Name | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Broughton Hospital | Morganton | 1.4 mi |
| Caldwell Memorial Hospital | Lenoir | 14.6 mi |
| Frye Regional Medical Center | Hickory | 18.0 mi |
| Mission Hospital McDowell | Marion | 21.1 mi |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory | 22.1 mi |
| Blue Ridge Regional Hospital | Spruce Pine | 26.0 mi |
Sources and identifiers
- Operator: CMS record · Owner review decisions (data/review/decisions.jsonl)
- Finances and payer mix: CMS hospital cost reports (HCRIS), fiscal year 2025
- Services: CMS Medicare inpatient and outpatient utilization
- Ownership type and beds: CMS Provider of Services file
- Location: CMS and Census Bureau geography
- CMS certification number
- 340075
- NPI
- 1700860491
- Last confirmed
- 2026-10-23
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