7939 U S Hwy 165 South, Columbia, LA, 71418 · (318) 649-6106
Beds
40
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 5 of 5
Net patient revenue
$16.3M
FY 2025
Net income
-$1.1M
Patient care margin -39.0%
Discharges
399
Occupancy 10.9%
Clinicians
49
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 | $16.3M | $22.6M | -39.0% | -$1.1M | 399 | $527K | 54.6% | 0.8% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 8.6% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 10.8% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.7% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 17.2% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.9% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.2% |
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 | $11.8M | $19.5M | -65.2% | -$904K | 371 | $395K | 53.6% | 0.1% |
| 2023 | $12.5M | $18.7M | -49.9% | $1.3M | 386 | $420K | 49.7% | 0.6% |
| 2022 | $12.2M | $16.8M | -37.3% | $835K | 511 | $315K | 50.4% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | $9.5M | $15.2M | -58.9% | $2.6M | 483 | $555K | 52.2% | 0.2% |
| 2020 | $9.7M | $15.6M | -61.0% | -$1.3M | 377 | $234K | 60.9% | 1.4% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.8% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.99 | US median 0.96 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 96% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 96% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 5 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 93% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 98% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 95% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 90% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 1% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 124 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 22% | US median 15% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 6% | US median 79% |
| DRG 871 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITH MCC |
| 11 |
| $25,369.36 |
| $16,934.64 |
| $15,524.21 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 11 | $16,122.55 | $10,590.00 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 11 | $10,313.36 | $5,742.36 | $5,662.18 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 97 | 88 | $1,851.41 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5331 Complex GI Procedures | - | - | - | $4,262.70 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | - | - | - | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | - | - | - | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
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.
Citizens Medical Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Columbia, LA with 40 beds and a 3-star overall rating.
Citizens Medical Center in Columbia, LA has 40 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report). It discharged 399 inpatients that year, with 10.9% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-03-31), Citizens Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $16.3M and operating expenses of $22.6M, a margin on patient care of -39.0%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$1.1M (-4.9% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Citizens Medical Center is not part of a multi-hospital health system in the official ownership records. It is a government-owned hospital (Government (hospital district)).
Citizens Medical Center has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 5 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Citizens Medical Center provides emergency services.
49 Medicare clinicians list Citizens Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology.
In 2024, Citizens Medical Center had 70 Medicare inpatient stays in 5 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 690 (kidney and urinary tract infections without mcc) with 24 stays; Medicare paid $6,186.13 per stay on average, compared with $5,985.69 across all hospitals.