4200 Nelson Road, Lake Charles, LA, 70605 · (337) 474-6370
Beds
88
FY 2025
Star rating
Not rated
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$94.8M
FY 2025
Net income
-$1.0M
Patient care margin -2.7%
Discharges
2,066
Occupancy 28.1%
Clinicians
180
Medicare clinicians who work here
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 | $94.8M | $97.4M | -2.7% | -$1.0M | 2,066 | $3.8M | 4.3% | 0.5% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.3% | US median 3.9% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.1% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.96 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.28 |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
| Diagnosis group | Stays | Average charge | Medicare pays per stay | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 13 | $43,428.23 | $8,477.38 | $7,681.44 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group |
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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.
| 2024 | $86.3M | $80.9M | 6.3% | $7.3M | 2,116 | $2.4M | 4.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023 | $81.6M | $79.8M | 2.2% | $2.8M | 2,103 | $2.0M | 4.4% | 32.4% |
| 2022 | $70.6M | $71.3M | -1.0% | -$719K | 1,985 | $2.1M | 4.5% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | $57.2M | $62.1M | -8.5% | -$192K | 1,606 | $1.9M | 2.8% | 0.1% |
| 2020 | $61.6M | $66.1M | -7.3% | -$2.9M | 2,164 | $2.9M | 7.4% | 0.3% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 86% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 79% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 67% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 76% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 72% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 80% | 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) | 130 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 7% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 86% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 80% | US median 79% |
| Services |
|---|
| Patients |
|---|
| Medicare pays per service |
|---|
| All hospitals |
|---|
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 75 | 62 | $2,300.71 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 72 | 67 | $1,353.72 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 53 | 51 | $3,462.02 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 32 | 32 | $4,784.84 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 31 | 31 | $1,078.19 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 30 | 30 | $3,733.21 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 29 | 29 | $1,828.94 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 22 | 18 | $1,292.31 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5414 Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures | 19 | 19 | $1,982.40 | $2,389.24 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 16 | 15 | $2,166.47 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | 15 | 15 | $2,307.68 | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 14 | 12 | $9,411.85 | $10,771.69 |
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.
Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Lake Charles, LA with 88 beds, part of Christus Health.
Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital in Lake Charles, LA has 88 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report). It discharged 2,066 inpatients that year, with 28.1% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital reported net patient revenue of $94.8M and operating expenses of $97.4M, a margin on patient care of -2.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$1.0M (-1.1% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital is part of Christus Health, a health system with 26 hospitals based in Irving, TX. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital has no overall star rating, usually because it reports too few quality measures (for example small, specialty or federal hospitals).
Yes, Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital provides emergency services.
180 Medicare clinicians list Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital had 13 Medicare inpatient stays in 1 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 872 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours without mcc) with 13 stays; Medicare paid $8,477.38 per stay on average, compared with $7,681.44 across all hospitals.