The Nation’s Most Cost-Efficient Hospital in 2021

The Lown Institute identified Pinnacle Hospital, a physician-owned facility, as the most cost-efficient hospital in the nation in 2021.

Each year, the Lown Institute unveils its social responsibility list, which ranks more than 3,000 hospitals on 54 metrics. Cost efficiency was one of the report’s new metrics in 2021, and it evaluated how well hospitals achieve low mortality rates at a low cost.

The Crown Point, Indiana, hospital is physician owned and operated and serves as a collaboration of multi-specialty physicians.