3600 Florida Blvd, Suite 2020, Baton Rouge, LA, 70806 · (225) 381-6393
Beds
169
FY 2025
Star rating
Not rated
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$46.7M
FY 2025
Net income
$10.2M
Patient care margin 18.5%
Discharges
1,738
Occupancy 18.1%
Clinicians
48
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 | $46.7M | $38.0M | 18.5% | $10.2M | 1,738 | $3.4M | 11.3% | 0.7% |
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 | 4.1% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.2% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 23.2% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.3% | US median 17.2% |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.23 | US median 0.28 |
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.
| 2024 | $40.2M | $40.8M | -1.5% | $172K | 1,905 | $3.4M | 12.7% | 0.7% |
| 2023 | $45.6M | $38.7M | 15.1% | $2.6M | 1,982 | $2.6M | 14.8% | 0.8% |
| 2022 | $33.6M | $34.5M | -2.7% | -$5.2M | 2,176 | $2.4M | 17.5% | 1.2% |
| 2021 | $34.2M | $35.0M | -2.2% | -$187K | 2,963 | $1.5M | 20.5% | 1.3% |
| Doctors always communicated well | 81% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 78% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 78% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 74% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 71% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 74% | 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) | 180 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 17% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 76% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 31% | US median 79% |
| 14 |
| $14,681.50 |
| $7,648.14 |
| $10,022.34 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 12 | $11,341.58 | $4,773.25 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 11 | $13,063.36 | $6,981.36 | $8,838.11 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 27 | 27 | $1,821.31 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $1,219.56 |
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 General is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Baton Rouge, LA with 169 beds, part of Baton Rouge General Health System.
The General in Baton Rouge, LA has 169 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 230 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 1,738 inpatients that year, with 18.1% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), The General reported net patient revenue of $46.7M and operating expenses of $38.0M, a margin on patient care of 18.5%. After other income and expenses its net income was $10.2M (21.1% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
The General is part of Baton Rouge General Health System, a health system with 2 hospitals based in Baton Rouge, LA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
The General has no overall star rating, usually because it reports too few quality measures (for example small, specialty or federal hospitals).
Yes, The General provides emergency services.
48 Medicare clinicians list The General as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry.
In 2024, The General had 138 Medicare inpatient stays in 5 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 885 (psychoses) with 67 stays; Medicare paid $8,362.42 per stay on average, compared with $11,869.17 across all hospitals.