Astrelis
Urban PPS hospital · AL

LAWRENCE MEDICAL CENTER

CCN 010059LAWRENCE CountyGovernment - Hospital District or Authority37 bedsLatest FY 2024
Historical record. CMS lists this CCN as terminated (voluntary - merger/closure). No successor CCN is recorded. The financials below are the historical results reported under this number and are excluded from current peer comparisons and state counts.
Cost-report basis
HCRIS · as filed
Not audited by Astrelis
The read

A hospital in Lawrence County, AL. It ran an operating loss of 36.5% in FY24 on $11.9M of operating revenue. It held 2 days of cash on hand. Only a single comparable reporting year is available, so trend context is limited.

Operating margin · FY24
-36.5%
vs Urban PPS hospitals
Days cash on hand · FY24
2d
all sources
vs Urban PPS hospitals
Total operating revenue · FY24
$11.9M
vs Urban PPS hospitals
Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY24
-34.9%
vs Urban PPS hospitals
One point of operating margin at LAWRENCE MEDICAL CENTER is about $119K per year (1% of FY24 total operating revenue).

Where LAWRENCE MEDICAL CENTER sits among Urban PPS hospitals

Operating margin · FY25 pool · n = 1,475 of 2,681 filed

Each point is one Urban PPS hospital in the national distribution for this provider type, placed by operating margin. Facilities are not matched on size, case mix, or market — that is the matched-peer comparison in the paid benchmark. The Urban PPS hospital median is +1.3%. Descriptive context only, not a ranking.

-20%-10%0%+10%+20%Urban PPS hospital median +1.3311360264910879%LAWRENCE MEDICAL -36.53737866117579%-20%0%+20%Urban PPS hospital median +1.3311360264910879%LAWRENCE MEDICAL -36.53737866117579%
One urban pps hospitalLAWRENCE MEDICALUrban PPS hospital median

The money

$ thousands · HCRIS cost-report basis · as filed, QA-gated

Ratios tell you how this hospital is doing. Statements tell you what kind of organization it is, and where the money comes from. Every figure below traces to a public cost-report filing, shown as filed. A ratio renders only when every input is reported in the filing; a year missing its core lines is not shown; a year whose balance sheet does not reconcile is labeled. Not audited by Astrelis.

Operating margin
-36.5% (FY24)
Operating income ÷ total operating revenue
HCRIS WS G-3
Total margin
-34.9% (FY24)
Net income ÷ total revenue incl. nonoperating
HCRIS WS G-3
Days cash on hand
2d (FY24)
Cash, investments & board-designated reserves ÷ daily operating expense (excl. depreciation)
HCRIS WS G / G-3
Current ratio
4.13× (FY24)
Total current assets ÷ current liabilities
HCRIS WS G
Equity financing ratio
81% (FY24)
Total net assets ÷ total assets
HCRIS WS G
Days in net patient A/R
66d (FY24)
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
HCRIS WS G / G-3
$ in thousands
Line itemFY22FY23FY24
Patient revenue11,79212,39011,873
Other operating revenue1,34580726
Total operating revenue13,13713,19711,899
Total operating expenses13,93715,35616,246
Operating income(801)(2,159)(4,347)
Operating margin %-6.1%-16.4%-36.5%
Investment income12539
Other non-operating, net98105102
Net income(702)(2,029)(4,206)
Net income %-5.3%-15.2%-34.9%
HCRIS Worksheet G-3 / S-3 · $ thousands · FY20–FY24 · where other operating income is not reported, total operating revenue reflects net patient revenue alone · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding in nonoperating income
FY20 operating and total margins are not shown: they compute from near-zero net patient revenue, so the ratio is not meaningful (display gate; statement values unchanged).

How it operates

quality & operational context · CMS public reporting

A 37-bed hospital at 10% occupancy where swing beds are 28% of the inpatient business and 87% of patient revenue is outpatient.

The metrics this hospital type is judged on: care quality, patient experience, and scale. Each is labeled by evidence class and public source; descriptive context only, never a ranking or adequacy claim.

Scale and flow
Occupancy
10.1%
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3
Average daily census
3.74
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3
Staffed beds (acute)
37
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3
Annual discharges
395
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3
Average length of stay
3.5d
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3
Swing-bed average daily census
1.43
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3 L5–6
Swing-bed share of inpatient days
27.7%
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3 (acute + swing days)
Outpatient share of patient revenue
86.5%
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS G-2 L28
Total FTEs
129.30
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3 Pt II
Contract labor share of labor cost
27.3%
Verified fact2024
HCRIS WS S-3 Pt V
Who it serves
Total unreimbursed & uncompensated care
$0.9M
Verified fact2023
HCRIS WS S-10 line 31
How the care measures up
No public quality measures are reported for this facility in the current Care Compare refresh.

Trajectory

Cost-report basis · 5 reporting years
Operating margin
-6.2%-6.1%-16.4%-36.5%FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24
Days cash on hand
327 days169 days33 days4 days2 daysFY20FY21FY22FY23FY24

The county this hospital serves

LAWRENCE County, AL
Median household income
$60.0K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
13.7%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
9.2%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
18.8%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
23.7%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 12.1% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 30.2% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).

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