130 Highland Pkwy, Picayune, MS, 39466 · (601) 358-9400
Beds
49
FY 2025
Star rating
1 of 5
Overall rating
Net patient revenue
$48.9M
FY 2025
Net income
-$2.2M
Patient care margin -11.8%
Discharges
1,132
Occupancy 29.7%
Clinicians
221
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 | $48.9M | $54.7M | -11.8% | -$2.2M | 1,132 | $5.1M | 38.4% | 11.1% |
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 | 9% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 11.4% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.6% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 17.9% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.8% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.5% |
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 | $48.0M | $52.3M | -8.8% | -$1.4M | 1,112 | $5.0M | 44.8% | 11.3% |
| 2023 | $40.0M | $51.8M | -29.4% | -$10.9M | 1,136 | $4.6M | 37.9% | 17.8% |
| 2022 | $42.4M | $54.0M | -27.5% | -$9.5M | 1,312 | $4.2M | 34.1% | 17.3% |
| 2021 | $44.3M | $53.3M | -20.3% | -$2.5M | 1,678 | $3.9M | 38.8% | 6.9% |
| 2020 | $34.2M | $48.0M | -40.3% | -$11.9M | 1,819 | $4.4M | 46.6% | 15.0% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.2% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.96 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 1.07 | US median 0.28 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 1.91 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 84% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 87% | US median 80% |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 67% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 82% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 81% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 83% | 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) | 124 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 15% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 76% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 52% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 67% | US median 74% |
| 25 |
| $37,836.16 |
| $8,771.92 |
| $12,667.88 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 15 | $30,540.87 | $6,682.67 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 14 | $34,625.14 | $6,732.21 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 14 | $26,663.14 | $5,855.50 | $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 | 157 | 140 | $1,818.19 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 19 | 17 | $1,355.15 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 17 | 16 | $1,282.61 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5313 Level 3 Lower GI Procedures | 11 | - | $1,733.60 | $2,176.09 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 11 | 11 | $3,509.92 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5163 Level 3 ENT Procedures | - | - | - | $1,105.91 |
| APC 5164 Level 4 ENT Procedures | - | - | - | $2,217.17 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | - | - | - | $502.15 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | - | - | - | $2,629.24 |
| 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.
Highland Community Hospital is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Picayune, MS with 49 beds, part of Forrest Health and a 1-star overall rating.
Highland Community Hospital in Picayune, MS has 49 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 60 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 1,132 inpatients that year, with 29.7% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Highland Community Hospital reported net patient revenue of $48.9M and operating expenses of $54.7M, a margin on patient care of -11.8%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$2.2M (-4.2% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Highland Community Hospital is part of Forrest Health, a health system with 8 hospitals based in Hattiesburg, MS. It is a government-owned hospital.
Highland Community Hospital has an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. 0 death rate measures are better and 1 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Highland Community Hospital provides emergency services.
221 Medicare clinicians list Highland Community Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Diagnostic Radiology.
In 2024, Highland Community Hospital had 156 Medicare inpatient stays in 6 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 55 stays; Medicare paid $9,873.18 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.