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Hood Memorial Hospital

301 W Walnut Street, Amite, LA 70422 · (985) 748-9485

Rural (critical access) hospitalGovernment - Hospital District or AuthorityEmergency room

Hood Memorial Hospital is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Amite, Louisiana (Tangipahoa Parish), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.68 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Louisiana hospital ($4.50).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$1.68listed for every $1 its care costs Louisiana typical $4.50
1 h 22 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

Infections and complications lower is better
Catheter urinary tract infections
0.88
≈ Same as US
C. diff intestinal infections
0.00
≈ Same as US

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

$60what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$3.2Mnet income, all sources
3.8%margin on patient care alone
$1.3Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
124full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending September 2024.

Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. The hospital publishes them on its own price page.

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.

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