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Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport-St Mary Medical Cent

1 St Mary Place, Shreveport, LA 71101 · (318) 626-4300

General hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateNo emergency room

Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport-St Mary Medical Cent is a non-profit general hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana (Caddo Parish), with 109 beds. It has no emergency room and holds 2 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. In CMS's patient survey it scores 4 of 5 stars, and 75% of patients said they would definitely recommend it. It lists $4.20 for every $1 its care costs, close to the typical Louisiana hospital ($4.50).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating
★★★★★patients' own rating (279 surveys)
$4.20listed for every $1 its care costs Louisiana typical $4.50
109beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

★★★★★4 of 5 · 279 surveys

75%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
75%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

  • Nurses communicated well★★★★★
  • Doctors communicated well★★★★★
  • Staff explained medicines★★★★★
  • Information for going home★★★★★
  • Room was clean★★★★★
  • Quiet at night★★★★★
Infections and complications lower is better
Central-line bloodstream infections
0.72
≈ Same as US
MRSA blood infections
0.93
≈ Same as US
C. diff intestinal infections
0.00
✓ Better than US
Serious complications (CMS safety index)
0.99
≈ 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

$24what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$12.2Mnet income, all sources
5.3%margin on patient care alone
$2.9Mcost of charity care (2.0% of costs)
$6.5Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
660full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 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. 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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under 1 mile awayIntensive Specialty HospitalShreveport, LANot ratedunder 1 mile awaySpecialists Hospital ShreveportShreveport, LANot rated$4.71 listed per $1 of costunder 1 mile awayBrentwood HospitalShreveport, LANot rated1.0 miles awayOchsner Lsu Health ShreveportShreveport, LA★★★★★$4.03 listed per $1 of cost1.7 miles awayOverton Brooks VA Medical Center (shreveport)Shreveport, LA★★★★★

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