Massachusetts Non-Acute Hospital Profiles

Non-acute hospitals are defined using the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and Department of Mental Health (DMH) license criteria. When presenting utilization, costs, and financial performance trends, baseline data is provided for each hospital type as a point of comparison.

Non-acute hospitals fall under these categories:

• Chronic Care Hospitals
  Chronic care hospitals are those with an average length of patient stay greater than 25 days. These hospitals typically provide longer-term care, such as ventilator-dependent care. Medicare classifies chronic care hospitals as long-term care hospitals, using the same 25-day threshold.
  
  
• Behavioral Health Hospitals
  Behavioral health hospitals are licensed by DMH for psychiatric services and by DPH for substance abuse services. Behavioral hospitals offer mental health services, substance abuse disorder treatments, and both inpatient and outpatient services.
  
  
• Rehabilitation Hospitals
  Rehabilitation hospitals provide intensive post-acute rehabilitation services, such as physical, occupational, and speech therapy services. For Medicare payment purposes, the federal government classifies hospitals as rehabilitation hospitals if they provide more than 60 percent of their inpatient services to patients with one or more of 13 diagnoses listed in federal regulations.
  
  
• Specialty Care Hospitals
  Non-acute specialty care hospitals provide long-term and unique patient care services.
  
  
• State-Operated Facilities
  • Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) Hospitals
    DMH operates 5 hospitals that provide psychiatric and mental health care for those with otherwise limited access to facilities providing such care.
    
    
  • Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) Hospitals
    DPH operates 4 multi-specialty hospitals that provide acute and chronic care to those for whom community facilities are not available or access to health care is restricted. 

Please Note: The data used for these profiles is sourced from provider-submitted data, including audited financial statements and hospital cost reports.

CHIA has created a new non-acute hospital interactive dashboard. The dashboard includes a map of non-acute hospitals across the Commonwealth, financial data, and inpatient utilization data. Each of these metrics are viewable by non-acute hospital type. 

Non-Acute Hospital Annual Performance (HFY 2024)

Updated 01/29/2026