Financial anchor year: FY25. Margin and revenue are as filed for FY25. Balance-sheet measures (current ratio, equity financing, days in A/R) use FY21, the latest filing whose balance sheet reconciled as filed. Every tile below states its own fiscal year; nothing is carried forward or estimated.
The read
A hospital in Lafayette, LA. It ran an operating surplus of 6.4% in FY25 on $830.3M of operating revenue. It held 2 days of cash on hand (32nd percentile among Urban PPS hospitals on liquidity). Operating margin improved from 5.1% in FY20 to 6.4% in FY25, though it fell 0.8 points in the most recent year. These figures come from filings spanning FY21–FY25: read each by its own year rather than as one current picture.
Operating margin · FY25
+6.4%
vs Urban PPS hospitals64th pctl of 1,475 (FY25)
Days cash on hand · FY25
2d
all sources
vs Urban PPS hospitals32nd pctl of 1,386 (FY25)
Total operating revenue · FY25
$830.3M
vs Urban PPS hospitals84th pctl of 1,503 (FY25)
Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY25
+6.4%
vs Urban PPS hospitals51st pctl of 1,475 (FY25)
One point of operating margin at OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER is about $8.3M per year (1% of FY25 total operating revenue).
Where OCHSNER LAFAYETTE GENERAL 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.
One urban pps hospitalOCHSNER LAFAYETTEUrban 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.
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
HCRIS WS G / G-3
$ in thousands
Line item
FY23
FY24
FY25
Patient revenue
627,866
653,581
752,862
Other operating revenue
63,219
79,467
77,440
Total operating revenue
691,085
733,047
830,301
Total operating expenses
637,503
680,213
777,340
Operating income
53,583
52,834
52,961
Operating margin %
+7.8%
+7.2%
+6.4%
Other non-operating, net
0
0
0
Net income
53,583
52,834
52,961
Net income %
+7.8%
+7.2%
+6.4%
HCRIS Worksheet G-3 / S-3 · $ thousands · FY20–FY25 · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding in nonoperating income
How it operates
quality & operational context · CMS public reporting
A 359-bed hospital at 74% occupancy 49% 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
73.6%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average daily census
265.02
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Staffed beds (acute)
359
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Annual discharges
22,980
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average length of stay
4.2d
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Outpatient share of patient revenue
49.1%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS G-2 L28
Total FTEs
2,890
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3 Pt II
Contract labor share of labor cost
17.9%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3 Pt V
Who it serves
Total unreimbursed & uncompensated care
$9.8M
Verified fact2023
HCRIS WS S-10 line 31
How the care measures up
C. difficile infection (SIR)
0.244
Better than the National Benchmark
CMS-reported measure07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025
CMS Care Compare
Hospital-wide unplanned readmission
15.7%
No Different Than the National Rate
CMS-reported measure07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024
CMS Care Compare
Medicare spending per beneficiary
1.02
CMS-reported measure01/01/2024 to 12/31/2024
CMS Care Compare
Patient-safety composite (PSI-90)
1.339608
CMS-reported measure07/01/2022 to 06/30/2024
CMS Care Compare
Trajectory
Cost-report basis · 6 reporting years
Operating margin
Days cash on hand
The county this hospital serves
LAFAYETTE County, LA · metro, 250K–1M
Median household income
$67.7K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
17.4%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
8.4%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
14.3%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
20.7%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 8.4% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 18.8% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).
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