Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center

1100 Carson Avenue, Lajuna, CO 81050 · (719) 363-1428

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateEmergency room

Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Lajuna, Colorado (Otero County), with 20 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.71 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Colorado hospital ($6.22).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$2.71listed for every $1 its care costs Colorado typical $6.22

20beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

60%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%

66%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

COPD

7.5%

US typical hospital. Infection figures are a ratio: 1.00 means as many infections as expected for a hospital like this one. CMS adjusts these rates for how sick the patients are; a small gap from the typical hospital can be chance, so a verdict is shown only where CMS gives one.

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.

The money

$37what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

−$1.8Mnet income, all sources

−11.5%margin on patient care alone

$816,688cost of charity care (2.8% of costs)

$3.3Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)

307full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending March 2025. Non-profit hospitals must have a financial assistance (charity care) policy; ask for it if a bill is hard to pay.

Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. Every US hospital must publish them; search the hospital's website for "price transparency" or "standard charges".

This hospital has no Medicare stay data for 2024. Medicare data covers mostly patients 65 and older, so psychiatric, children's and very small hospitals often don't appear.

Nearby hospitals

51 miles awayProwers Medical CenterLamar, CONot rated$1.49 listed per $1 of cost 54 miles awayWeisbrod Memorial County HospitalEads, CONot rated$0.63 listed per $1 of cost

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