Sage Specialty Hospital of Lake Charles
Sage Specialty Hospital of Lake Charles is a Medicare-certified long-term acute care hospital in Lake Charles, LA, certified since 1995.
Address524 Dr Michael Debakey Drive, 3rd Floor, Lake Charles, LA 70601
Phone(337) 310-6033
OwnershipFor-profit
Beds33
Medicare certifiedMarch 1995
CountyCalcasieu
CMS Certification Number192013
Long-term acute care quality
CMS Long-term acute care Quality Reporting Program, data through December 2025
Sage Specialty Hospital of Lake Charles reports long-term acute care quality results to Medicare. Returned home or to the community: 21% here, against 15% nationally. Where CMS compares facilities statistically, this one is no different from the national rate.
Results
Returned home or to the community
Medicare patients who went home (or to another community setting) and stayed out of hospitals and nursing homes for at least 31 days. Risk-standardized; CMS compares it with the national rate. Based on 121 patients. Oct 2023 – Sep 2025.
21%
U.S. 15%
Same as national
Preventable readmissions after discharge
Medicare patients readmitted to a hospital within 30 days of leaving, for problems that good care could have prevented (risk-standardized). Based on 122 patients. Oct 2023 – Sep 2025.
26%
U.S. 22%
Same as national
Met their expected function at discharge
Patients who were at or above the expected ability to care for themselves and move around when they left. Based on 116 patients. Jan 2025 – Dec 2025.
56%
U.S. 48%
Safety
Falls with major injury
Patients who had one or more falls with a major injury during their stay. Based on 167 patients. Jan 2025 – Dec 2025.
0%
U.S. 0.1%
New or worsened pressure ulcers
Patients with pressure ulcers or injuries that were new or got worse during the stay (risk-adjusted). Based on 146 patients. Jan 2025 – Dec 2025.
1.4%
U.S. 2.3%
Catheter urinary tract infections
Standardized infection ratio: actual infections divided by the number predicted. Below 1 means fewer than predicted. Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
1.16
U.S. 0.70
Same as national
Central line bloodstream infections
Standardized infection ratio for central line-associated bloodstream infections. Below 1 means fewer than predicted. Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
1.36
U.S. 0.67
Same as national
C. diff infections
Standardized infection ratio for Clostridioides difficile infections. Below 1 means fewer than predicted. Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
0.00
U.S. 0.24
Medications reviewed
Patients whose medicines were reviewed, with follow-up when a problem was found. Based on 167 patients. Jan 2025 – Dec 2025.
98%
U.S. 96%
Medication list sent to next provider
Patients whose current medication list went to their next care provider. Based on 124 patients. Jan 2025 – Dec 2025.
100%
U.S. 83%
Medication list given to patient
Patients (or their family or caregiver) given a current medication list at discharge. Based on 22 patients. Jan 2025 – Dec 2025.
95%
U.S. 89%
Staff flu vaccination
Health care staff who got a flu shot for the season. Based on 129 patients. Oct 2024 – Mar 2025.
71%
U.S. 69%
Staff up to date on COVID-19 vaccines
Health care staff who were up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines. Based on 65 patients. Oct 2025 – Dec 2025.
0%
U.S. 4.6%
Patients up to date on COVID-19 vaccines
Patients who were up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines at discharge. Based on 167 patients. Oct 2025 – Dec 2025.
0.6%
U.S. 12%
Cost
Medicare spending per patient
Medicare spending for a long-term acute care stay and the 30 days after, compared with the national median facility (1.00). Below 1 means less spending. Based on 172 patients. Oct 2022 – Sep 2024.
0.87
U.S. 1.00
Source: CMS Long-term acute care Quality Reporting Program (Provider Data Catalog). Better/worse labels appear only where CMS itself compared the facility with the national rate; other figures are shown next to the national figure for context.
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