7901 Walker Street, La Palma, CA, 90623 · (714) 670-7400
Beds
115
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$75.0M
FY 2025
Net income
$10.1M
Patient care margin 12.9%
Discharges
3,771
Occupancy 33.9%
Clinicians
91
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 | $75.0M | $65.3M | 12.9% | $10.1M | 3,771 | $1.5M | 38.5% | 3.8% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 10.8% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 10.3% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.5% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 10.4% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.7% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.8% |
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 | $64.6M | $66.2M | -2.6% | $86K | 2,984 | $1.4M | 34.1% | 8.5% |
| 2023 | $55.9M | $58.7M | -5.0% | -$2.4M | 2,682 | $1.5M | 36.1% | 4.7% |
| 2022 | $54.3M | $55.3M | -1.7% | -$425K | 2,590 | $1.3M | 32.6% | 9.9% |
| 2021 | $50.3M | $51.9M | -3.3% | $382K | 2,288 | $2.1M | 34.3% | 12.4% |
| 2020 | $45.4M | $52.8M | -16.4% | $1.2M | 12,227 | $1.6M | 42.1% | - |
| US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.8% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.6% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.87 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.15 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 66% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 69% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 38% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 57% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 70% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 55% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 3% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 204 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 9% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 71% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 76% | US median 79% |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 38 | $29,094.13 | $6,995.92 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 35 | $36,597.14 | $12,087.94 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 28 | $38,634.14 | $9,286.71 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 26 | $59,785.35 | $12,294.31 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 682 RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 25 | $39,493.52 | $12,213.52 | $11,457.18 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 20 | $35,040.10 | $14,909.35 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 19 | $68,097.16 | $15,418.05 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 17 | $28,781.47 | $6,945.59 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 070 OTHER CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS WITH MCC | 15 | $31,358.20 | $15,413.33 | $14,148.94 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 15 | $57,108.73 | $11,095.47 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 071 OTHER CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS WITH CC | 15 | $28,883.87 | $9,249.67 | $8,149.46 |
| DRG 393 OTHER DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 14 | $53,707.93 | $15,963.14 | $13,886.93 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 13 | $27,819.23 | $10,679.23 | $8,838.11 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 14 | - | $1,588.14 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,751.67 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | - | - | - | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5092 Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $4,981.95 |
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.
La Palma Intercommunity Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in La Palma, CA with 115 beds, part of Prime Healthcare and a 3-star overall rating.
La Palma Intercommunity Hospital in La Palma, CA has 115 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 129 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 3,771 inpatients that year, with 33.9% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), La Palma Intercommunity Hospital reported net patient revenue of $75.0M and operating expenses of $65.3M, a margin on patient care of 12.9%. After other income and expenses its net income was $10.1M (13.4% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
La Palma Intercommunity Hospital is part of Prime Healthcare, a health system with 47 hospitals based in Ontario, CA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
La Palma Intercommunity Hospital has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 1 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
No, La Palma Intercommunity Hospital does not list emergency services.
91 Medicare clinicians list La Palma Intercommunity Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Nephrology.
In 2024, La Palma Intercommunity Hospital had 609 Medicare inpatient stays in 21 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 197 stays; Medicare paid $18,569.17 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.