Northside Hospital Duluth

• 61.71% of its patients returned home or to the community: worse than the national rate, as CMS compares it (Oct 1, 2023 to Sep 30, 2025).
• Compared by CMS: potentially preventable readmissions within 30 days after discharge, no different than the national rate (9.19%); potentially preventable readmissions during the stay, no different than the national rate (5.34%); C. diff infections, no comparison (standardized infection ratio 0).
• As CMS gives them: patients with one or more falls with major injury, 0%; patients with new or worsened pressure ulcers or injuries, 0.33%; patients at or above an expected ability to care for themselves and move around at discharge, 23%; Medicare spending per patient (1 is the national median), 1.33.

• An inpatient rehabilitation unit of Northside Hospital Duluth (CMS certification number 110252), Medicare-certified since Jul 1, 2021.
• Ownership: non-profit.
• Its hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, whose surveys stand in for the state’s routine inspections.
• CMS inspects a hospital’s rehabilitation unit as part of the hospital, so QCOR lists no inspection of the unit on its own.
• Non-profit.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for these facilities.
• CMS inspects a hospital’s rehabilitation unit as part of the hospital, so QCOR lists no inspection of the unit on its own.

• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for these facilities.
• 80% of its health care workers got a flu shot (Oct 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025).

• 23 owners or officers are people: Keith Buchanan (corporate director); Robert T. Quattrocchi (corporate officer); Robert T. Quattrocchi (corporate director); Thurbert Baker (corporate director); Wayne Sikes (corporate director); Terri Jondahl (corporate director); Alan K Carnes (corporate director); John Levengood (managing employee (on the payroll)); Shannon Banna (corporate officer); Shannon Banna (managing employee (on the payroll)); Anthony Salvatore (corporate director); Iqbal Garcha (corporate director); Amy E Fouts (corporate officer); Amy E Fouts (managing employee (on the payroll)); Nicholas P Gubbins (corporate officer); Nicholas P Gubbins (managing employee (on the payroll)); Genevieve L Fairbrother (corporate director); Wayne Lee Ambroze (corporate director); Deborah S Mitcham (corporate officer); Josef G Venable (corporate director); Barbara A Pare (corporate director); Mark J Sweeney (corporate director); Dale M Bearman (corporate director).
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• Of the 3 inpatient rehabilitation facilities CMS lists in Gwinnett County, 2 have CMS’s comparison of their discharges to the community with the national rate: 1 better than the national rate, 1 worse than the national rate.
• CMS rates this one worse than the national rate for returning patients to the community.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for inpatient rehabilitation facilities or long-term care hospitals, so none are shown.
• Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
• Many of these facilities are accredited by a private organisation (The Joint Commission, DNV and others) whose routine inspections stand in for the state’s; those reports aren’t public, and QCOR holds only the state’s surveys: no inspection on record here doesn’t mean none took place.
• QCOR says its hospital inspection data are complete only through September 17, 2026, while it moves to a new system.
• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for these facilities.
• CMS inspects a hospital’s rehabilitation unit as part of the hospital, so QCOR lists no inspection of the unit on its own.

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility - General Information (7t8x-u3ir).

  Released Sep 23, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility - Provider Data (v9e4-nwhh).

  Released Sep 23, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider of Services File - Hospital & Non-Hospital Facilities (Hospital_and_other.DATA.Q3_2026.csv).

  Released Oct 14, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR Hospital 2567 statements of deficiencies (Hospital_2567s_2010_to_2026YTD.xlsx).

  Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital All Owners (Hospital_All_Owners_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Enrollments (Hospital_Enrollments_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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