923 East Central Avenue, La Follette, TN, 37766 · (423) 907-1200
Beds
48
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$64.1M
FY 2025
Net income
$5.9M
Patient care margin 7.5%
Discharges
1,666
Occupancy 44.6%
Clinicians
141
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 | $64.1M | $59.3M | 7.5% | $5.9M | 1,666 | $2.7M | 17.4% | - |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 10% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 15.9% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.8% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.3% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.4% |
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 | $47.5M | $48.1M | -1.4% | -$138K | 1,626 | $2.7M | 17.5% | - |
| 2023 | $45.4M | $46.8M | -3.0% | $1.2M | 1,499 | $2.8M | 20.7% | - |
| 2022 | $47.4M | $46.6M | 1.7% | $4.9M | 1,615 | $3.6M | 21.8% | - |
| 2021 | $41.9M | $42.0M | -0.4% | $3.1M | 1,200 | $2.6M | 23.1% | - |
| 2020 | $39.9M | $38.5M | 3.7% | $3.3M | 1,308 | $2.9M | 31.8% | 15.1% |
| US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.94 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.83 | US median 0.28 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 79% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 79% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 60% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 59% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 77% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 49% | 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) | 147 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 | 46% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 71% | US median 79% |
| 19 |
| $79,408.47 |
| $12,624.11 |
| $12,667.88 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $36,786.92 | $6,391.00 | $5,985.69 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 24 | 24 | $1,846.01 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 16 | 14 | $3,641.37 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | - | - | - | $1,204.32 |
| APC 5192 Level 2 Endovascular Procedures | - | - | - | $4,338.16 |
| APC 5194 Level 4 Endovascular Procedures | - | - | - | $14,606.35 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | - | - | - | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | - | - | - | $1,516.28 |
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.
Lafollette Medical Center is a for-profit short-term acute care hospital in La Follette, TN with 48 beds, part of Community Health Systems and a 3-star overall rating.
Lafollette Medical Center in La Follette, TN has 48 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 66 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 1,666 inpatients that year, with 44.6% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-09-30), Lafollette Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $64.1M and operating expenses of $59.3M, a margin on patient care of 7.5%. After other income and expenses its net income was $5.9M (9.0% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Lafollette Medical Center is part of Community Health Systems (listed company, ticker CYH), a health system with 60 hospitals based in Franklin, TN. It is a for-profit hospital.
Lafollette Medical Center has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Lafollette Medical Center provides emergency services.
141 Medicare clinicians list Lafollette Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Lafollette Medical Center had 94 Medicare inpatient stays in 4 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 39 stays; Medicare paid $14,255.00 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.