General hospitalGovernment - Hospital District or AuthorityEmergency room
New Orleans East Hospital is a government-owned general hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana (Orleans Parish), with 40 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $4.40 for every $1 its care costs, close to the typical Louisiana hospital ($4.50).
$4.40listed for every $1 its care costs Louisiana typical $4.50
2 h 20 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
40beds
Quality and patient experience
What patients say
78%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
73%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%
Rated by patients
Emergency room and urgent care
2 h 20 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
2%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%
69%of sepsis patients got the recommended care US typical 65%
ER volume: medium.
Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Stroke
9.5%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Heart failure
22.1%
Pneumonia
16.8%
Infections and complications lower is better
C. diff intestinal infections
0.00
≈ Same as US
Serious complications (CMS safety index)
0.98
≈ 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
$23what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$3.3Mnet income, all sources
−1.6%margin on patient care alone
$5.1Mcost of charity care (8.7% of costs)
$2.0Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
566full-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.