7900 Lee's Summit Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64139 · (816) 404-7000
Beds
117
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$206.9M
FY 2025
Net income
-$2.8M
Patient care margin -19.1%
Discharges
4,409
Occupancy 50.7%
Clinicians
279
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 | $206.9M | $246.4M | -19.1% | -$2.8M | 4,409 | $16.7M | 7.6% | 27.9% |
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 | 3.5% | US median 3.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.8% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20.1% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.3% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.96 | US median 0.96 |
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 | $195.8M | $236.8M | -20.9% | -$74.3M | 3,896 | $14.3M | 10.3% | 18.1% |
| 2023 | $158.8M | $213.7M | -34.6% | -$78.8M | 3,729 | $14.4M | 11.4% | 30.8% |
| 2022 | $178.0M | $203.3M | -14.2% | -$7.4M | 3,966 | $16.5M | 13.3% | 31.6% |
| 2021 | $290.0M | $205.6M | 29.1% | $120.5M | 4,143 | $24.4M | 14.3% | 27.5% |
| 2020 | $173.9M | $212.2M | -22.0% | -$22.6M | 4,229 | $31.7M | 12.9% | 29.7% |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.20 | US median 0.28 · better |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.94 | US median 0.60 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 72% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 70% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 57% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 65% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 70% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 67% | 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) | 150 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 6% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 74% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 90% | US median 79% |
| 14 |
| $16,395.57 |
| $22,656.93 |
| $10,022.34 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 59 | 53 | $1,750.40 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 54 | 53 | $9,702.15 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 26 | 22 | $2,252.21 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 15 | 15 | $4,373.76 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 15 | 12 | $1,118.30 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 13 | 13 | $1,128.10 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | - | - | - | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | - | - | - | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5414 Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures | - | - | - | $2,389.24 |
| APC 5415 Level 5 Gynecologic Procedures | - | - | - | $3,792.42 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | - | - | - | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5462 Level 2 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $4,524.18 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| BioFire Diagnostics, LLC | 7 | $21K |
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.
University Health Lakewood Medical Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Kansas City, MO with 117 beds, part of University Health and a 4-star overall rating.
University Health Lakewood Medical Center in Kansas City, MO has 117 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 304 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 4,409 inpatients that year, with 50.7% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), University Health Lakewood Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $206.9M and operating expenses of $246.4M, a margin on patient care of -19.1%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$2.8M (-1.1% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
University Health Lakewood Medical Center is part of University Health, a health system with 2 hospitals based in City: Kansas City, MO. It is a nonprofit hospital.
University Health Lakewood Medical Center has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, University Health Lakewood Medical Center provides emergency services.
279 Medicare clinicians list University Health Lakewood Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna).
In 2024, University Health Lakewood Medical Center had 68 Medicare inpatient stays in 3 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 885 (psychoses) with 36 stays; Medicare paid $20,320.89 per stay on average, compared with $11,869.17 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $21K in payments to University Health Lakewood Medical Center as a teaching hospital (- general and $21K for research) from 1 companies.