Lallie Kemp Medical Center
52579 Highway 51 South, Independence, LA 70443 · (985) 878-1333
Lallie Kemp Medical Center is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Independence, Louisiana (Tangipahoa Parish), with 24 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.32 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Louisiana hospital ($4.50).
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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$1.32listed for every $1 its care costs Louisiana typical $4.50
1 h 41 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
24beds
Quality and patient experience
What patients say
80%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
83%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%
Rated by patients
Emergency room and urgent care
1 h 41 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
3%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%
ER volume: low.
Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.
The money
$76what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$52.8Mnet income, all sources
$914,404cost of charity care (2.1% of costs)
$3.7Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
345full-time staff (equivalent)
From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025.
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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