4370 West Main Street, Dothan, AL, 36302 · (334) 793-5000
Beds
183
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$255.0M
FY 2025
Net income
$37.9M
Patient care margin 14.1%
Discharges
11,662
Occupancy 80.6%
Clinicians
514
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 | $255.0M | $219.1M | 14.1% | $37.9M | 11,662 | $6.9M | 20.9% | 11.2% |
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 | 2.7% | US median 2.3% |
| Death rate for COPD patients | 12% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 13% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 13.3% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.8% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 19.5% | 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 | $230.1M | $188.0M | 18.3% | $43.2M | 11,055 | $6.9M | 21.8% | 11.8% |
| 2023 | $235.4M | $203.8M | 13.4% | $38.1M | 12,653 | $8.7M | 24.0% | 12.6% |
| 2022 | $235.5M | $202.1M | 14.2% | $34.9M | 12,030 | $8.6M | 27.2% | 13.4% |
| 2021 | $231.8M | $198.7M | 14.3% | $38.5M | 11,733 | $8.4M | 28.8% | 12.6% |
| 2020 | $208.7M | $184.7M | 11.5% | $28.9M | 11,546 | $10.1M | 34.0% | 13.8% |
| 14.1% |
| US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate after heart bypass surgery | 14% | US median 10.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.4% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 15.2% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.9% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6.4% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.1% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.3% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.60 | US median 0.96 · better |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.13 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.28 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.72 |
| Surgical site infections after hysterectomy (ratio to expected) | 0.84 | US median 0.81 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.60 · better |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 77% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 76% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 62% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 66% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 68% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 68% | 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) | 227 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 11% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 64% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 46% | US median 79% |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 89 | $77,111.33 | $7,640.54 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 62 | $87,999.90 | $8,906.21 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 322 PERCUTANEOUS CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES WITH INTRALUMINAL DEVICE WITHOUT MCC | 48 | $358,237.63 | $10,198.71 | $12,904.99 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 47 | $181,763.66 | $11,549.83 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 46 | $100,347.54 | $9,788.24 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 281 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH CC | 46 | $71,822.63 | $4,937.74 | $6,648.56 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 43 | $61,995.53 | $5,328.44 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 309 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS WITH CC | 40 | $40,314.50 | $3,477.90 | $5,247.13 |
| DRG 460 SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITHOUT MCC | 39 | $301,761.92 | $20,942.08 | $27,891.78 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 35 | $83,246.46 | $6,383.54 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 35 | $64,533.86 | $3,974.17 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 34 | $71,068.00 | $4,955.56 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 682 RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 34 | $100,895.38 | $8,626.85 | $11,457.18 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 134 | 128 | $4,611.87 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 124 | 115 | $1,063.07 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 122 | 121 | $1,916.64 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 109 | 106 | $2,020.73 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 104 | 103 | $3,870.61 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 104 | 100 | $9,284.35 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5193 Level 3 Endovascular Procedures | 102 | 99 | $7,279.43 | $8,873.86 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 81 | 77 | $1,250.17 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 76 | 66 | $2,316.40 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 75 | 75 | $1,780.38 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 56 | 56 | $2,017.90 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 45 | 40 | $1,393.39 | $1,516.28 |
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.
Flowers Hospital is a for-profit short-term acute care hospital in Dothan, AL with 183 beds, part of Community Health Systems and a 2-star overall rating.
Flowers Hospital in Dothan, AL has 183 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 235 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 11,662 inpatients that year, with 80.6% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-08-31), Flowers Hospital reported net patient revenue of $255.0M and operating expenses of $219.1M, a margin on patient care of 14.1%. After other income and expenses its net income was $37.9M (14.8% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Flowers Hospital is part of Community Health Systems (listed company, ticker CYH), a health system with 60 hospitals based in Franklin, TN. It is a for-profit hospital.
Flowers Hospital has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Flowers Hospital provides emergency services.
514 Medicare clinicians list Flowers Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Family Practice.
In 2024, Flowers Hospital had 1,853 Medicare inpatient stays in 69 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 145 stays; Medicare paid $11,123.68 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.