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West Carroll Memorial Hospital

706 Ross Street, Oak Grove, LA 71263 · (318) 428-3237

Rural (critical access) hospitalProprietaryEmergency room

West Carroll Memorial Hospital is a for-profit rural critical-access hospital in Oak Grove, Louisiana (West Carroll Parish), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.08 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Louisiana hospital ($4.50).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$2.08listed for every $1 its care costs Louisiana typical $4.50
2 h 25 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

83%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
72%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

    Emergency room and urgent care

    2 h 25 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
    1%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%

    ER volume: low.

    Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
    Heart failure
    21.2%
    Pneumonia
    18.2%

    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

    $48what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
    $5.1Mnet income, all sources
    −28.7%margin on patient care alone
    $408,303cost of charity care (1.4% of costs)
    $91,122unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
    110full-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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