Financial anchor year: FY23. Margin and revenue are as filed for FY23. Balance-sheet measures (current ratio, equity financing, days in A/R) use FY25, 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 hospice in El Dorado, AR. It ran an operating loss of 31.1% in FY23 on $3.4M of operating revenue. Only a single comparable reporting year is available, so trend context is limited. It carries an average daily census of 37.
Average daily census
37
Verified fact2025
Source: CMS Hospice
Hospice Care Index
10
Verified fact2025
Source: CMS Hospice Quality
Operating margin · FY23
-31.1%
vs hospices16th pctl of 3,488 (FY24)
Total days of care
19034.0d
Verified fact2025
Source: HCRIS CMS-1984
This facility's newest settled year, FY25, has not yet reached pool validity: benchmarked against the FY24 pool (n=3,488).
Where ARKANSAS HOSPICE, INC sits among hospices
Operating margin · FY24 pool · n = 3,488 of 5,626 filed
Each point is one hospice 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 hospice median is +0.1%. Descriptive context only, not a ranking.
This facility's newest settled year, FY25, has not yet reached pool validity: benchmarked against the FY24 pool (n=3,488).
One hospiceARKANSAS HOSPICE,hospice median
The money
$ thousands · HCRIS cost-report basis · as filed, QA-gated
Ratios tell you how this hospice 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
-31.1% (FY23)
Operating income ÷ total operating revenue
HCRIS WS G-3
Total margin
-8.6% (FY23)
Net income ÷ total revenue incl. nonoperating
HCRIS WS G-3
Days cash on hand
Not reported in this filing
Cash & investments ÷ daily operating expense
HCRIS WS G / G-3
Current ratio
2.04× (FY25)
Total current assets ÷ current liabilities
HCRIS WS G
Equity financing ratio
20% (FY25)
Total net assets ÷ total assets
HCRIS WS G
Days in net patient A/R
Not shown, outside plausibility bounds
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
HCRIS WS G / G-3
$ in thousands
Line item
FY23
FY24
FY25
Patient revenue
787
2,597
3,435
Total operating revenue
787
2,597
3,435
Total operating expenses
1,031
(1,592)
(558)
Operating income
(244)
4,189
3,993
Operating margin %
-31.0%
+161.3%
+116.2%
Other non-operating, net
162
1,050
1,121
Net income
(82)
5,239
5,114
Net income %
-8.6%
+143.7%
+112.2%
HCRIS CMS-1984 cost report · $ thousands · FY20–FY25 · patient-service operating basis; non-patient revenue (contributions, investment) is non-operating · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding
How it operates
quality & operational context · CMS public reporting
The metrics this hospice 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.
Hospice Care Index
10
Verified fact2025
CMS Hospice Quality
Average daily census
37
Verified fact2025
CMS Hospice
Routine home care mix
98.4%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS CMS-1984
General inpatient mix
0.6%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS CMS-1984
Respite mix
1.0%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS CMS-1984
Total days of care
19034.0d
Verified fact2025
HCRIS CMS-1984
CAHPS family caregiver rating
4
Verified fact2025
CMS Hospice CAHPS
Continuous home care mix
0.0%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS CMS-1984
Trajectory
Cost-report basis · 6 reporting years
Operating margin
Days cash on hand
The county this hospice serves
Union County, AR · nonmetro, urban 5–20K
Median household income
$50.2K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
19.4%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
5.8%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
18.9%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
27.6%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 13.3% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 28.7% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).
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