Lavaca Medical Center

1400 North Texana Street, Hallettsville, TX 77964 · (361) 798-3671

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

Lavaca Medical Center is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Hallettsville, Texas (Lavaca County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room and holds 4 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. It lists $1.47 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Texas hospital ($6.38).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating

$1.47listed for every $1 its care costs Texas typical $6.38

2 h 2 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

25beds

Quality and patient experience

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Heart failure

10.3%

Pneumonia

12.0%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Heart failure

21.6%

Pneumonia

15.7%

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

$68what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

−$739,024net income, all sources

−40.5%margin on patient care alone

$927,095cost of charity care (4.2% of costs)

$753,073unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

116full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 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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