2000 Pepperell Parkway, Opelika, AL, 36801 · (334) 528-1300
Beds
290
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$527.3M
FY 2025
Net income
$46.6M
Patient care margin 2.7%
Discharges
14,585
Occupancy 80.7%
Clinicians
507
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $527.3M | $513.0M | 2.7% | $46.6M | 14,585 | $17.5M | 17.9% | 15.4% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate after heart bypass surgery | 2.6% | US median 2.3% |
| Death rate for COPD patients | 11.6% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 13.4% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 12.1% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.3% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 17.5% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $472.6M | $457.3M | 3.2% | $51.6M | 13,749 | $14.8M | 17.1% | 20.1% |
| 2023 | $419.1M | $437.7M | -4.4% | $50.8M | 12,527 | $13.8M | 19.9% | 21.6% |
| 2022 | $399.6M | $425.6M | -6.5% | $11.2M | 15,434 | $15.4M | 21.6% | 22.5% |
| 2021 | - | $382.7M | - | - | 15,455 | $19.2M | 24.1% | 20.0% |
| 2020 | $341.8M | $373.4M | -9.3% | $29.0M | 16,215 | $16.8M | 28.5% | 21.6% |
Revenue and income are left empty for fiscal year 2021: that cost report was filed without contractual allowances, so its net revenue would equal gross charges.
| 13.6% |
| US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate after heart bypass surgery | 10.9% | US median 10.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 13.6% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 19.5% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.3% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.1% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.99 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.71 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.39 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 1.30 | US median 0.72 |
| Surgical site infections after hysterectomy (ratio to expected) | 1.75 | US median 0.81 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.54 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.33 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 83% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 80% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 63% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 71% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 70% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 70% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 5% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 200 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 8% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 71% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 77% | US median 79% |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 129 | $30,218.50 | $7,942.68 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 52 | $43,271.52 | $10,143.48 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 49 | $39,093.94 | $7,852.10 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 46 | $18,351.07 | $4,517.83 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 46 | $26,378.67 | $5,890.76 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 40 | $23,694.10 | $5,134.35 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 39 | $27,719.00 | $6,619.92 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 37 | $34,157.84 | $6,053.73 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 522 HIP REPLACEMENT WITH PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS OF HIP FRACTURE WITHOUT MCC | 35 | $40,633.09 | $13,161.26 | $15,768.13 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 34 | $35,162.50 | $8,124.00 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 33 | $18,134.97 | $4,175.48 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 885 PSYCHOSES | 31 | $19,535.94 | $7,828.52 | $11,869.17 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 31 | $24,561.35 | $5,952.13 | $5,829.71 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 243 | 242 | $2,054.67 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 212 | 129 | $1,641.52 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5193 Level 3 Endovascular Procedures | 152 | 147 | $7,991.53 | $8,873.86 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 141 | 137 | $1,929.56 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 140 | 133 | $772.29 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 125 | 121 | $3,969.83 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 124 | 113 | $1,423.10 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 112 | 103 | $3,549.88 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5192 Level 2 Endovascular Procedures | 99 | 87 | $4,027.26 | $4,338.16 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 96 | 80 | $2,431.91 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 87 | 84 | $2,204.95 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5223 Level 3 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures | 77 | 77 | $7,703.25 | $8,569.01 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
The East Alabama Healthcare Authority is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Opelika, AL with 290 beds, part of East Alabama Medical Center and a 3-star overall rating.
The East Alabama Healthcare Authority in Opelika, AL has 290 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 429 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 14,585 inpatients that year, with 80.7% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), The East Alabama Healthcare Authority reported net patient revenue of $527.3M and operating expenses of $513.0M, a margin on patient care of 2.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was $46.6M (8.3% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
The East Alabama Healthcare Authority is part of East Alabama Medical Center, a health system with 1 hospitals based in Opelika, AL. It is a government-owned hospital.
The East Alabama Healthcare Authority has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 4 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, The East Alabama Healthcare Authority provides emergency services.
507 Medicare clinicians list The East Alabama Healthcare Authority as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Family Practice.
In 2024, The East Alabama Healthcare Authority had 1,620 Medicare inpatient stays in 59 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 470 (major hip and knee joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity without mcc) with 160 stays; Medicare paid $10,583.32 per stay on average, compared with $14,289.25 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $62K in payments to The East Alabama Healthcare Authority as a teaching hospital ($62K general and - for research) from 7 companies.