Ochsner Specialty Hospital

When those deficiencies happened

1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2024. Most serious: Standard-level. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

Each deficiency, as cited

Rule titles as CMS’s inspectors cite them, set in sentence case.

• 19.29% of its patients returned home or to the community: no different than the national rate, as CMS compares it (Oct 1, 2023 to Sep 30, 2025).
• Compared by CMS: potentially preventable readmissions within 30 days after discharge, no different than the national rate (24.44%); C. diff infections, no comparison (standardized infection ratio 0).
• As CMS gives them: patients with one or more falls with major injury, 0%; patients with new or worsened pressure ulcers or injuries, 0%; patients at or above an expected ability to care for themselves and move around at discharge, 30.36%; Medicare spending per patient (1 is the national median), 0.88.

• Medicare-certified long-term care hospital since May 1, 1995.
• Ownership: non-profit.
• It is not accredited by a private organisation, so the state carries out its routine inspections for Medicare.
• No condition-level: what this means deficiency on record in the last three years.
• Non-profit.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for these facilities.
• None of the deficiencies cited in the last three years came from an inspection that included a complaint investigation.

• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for these facilities.
• 84.21% of its health care workers got a flu shot (Oct 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025).

• Rush Health Systems Inc. owns 100% directly since Jul 1, 2022.
• Ochsner Clinic Foundation and Rush Health Systems Inc. run it.
• 23 owners or officers are people: Johnathan Y Lee (corporate director); Johnathan Y Lee (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Kristin K. Molony (managing employee (on the payroll)); Kristin K. Molony (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Michael F Hulefeld (corporate officer); Michael F Hulefeld (corporate director); Michael F Hulefeld (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Faye Martin (corporate director); Faye Martin (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Alan Gartrell (corporate director); Alan Gartrell (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Peter C November (corporate officer); Peter C November (corporate director); Peter C November (runs it (operational or managerial control)); James M Molloy (corporate officer); Darrell Wildman (corporate director); Darrell Wildman (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Don L Kennedy (corporate officer); Don L Kennedy (managing employee (on the payroll)); Don L Kennedy (runs it (operational or managerial control)); David L Butler (corporate officer); David L Butler (managing employee (on the payroll)); David L Butler (runs it (operational or managerial control)).
• CMS’s Provider of Services file records 1 change of ownership.
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• Of the 2 long-term care hospitals CMS lists in Lauderdale County, 2 have CMS’s comparison of their discharges to the community with the national rate: 2 no different than the national rate.
• CMS rates this one no different than the national rate for returning patients to the community.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for inpatient rehabilitation facilities or long-term care hospitals, so none are shown.
• Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
• Many of these facilities are accredited by a private organisation (The Joint Commission, DNV and others) whose routine inspections stand in for the state’s; those reports aren’t public, and QCOR holds only the state’s surveys: no inspection on record here doesn’t mean none took place.
• QCOR says its hospital inspection data are complete only through September 17, 2026, while it moves to a new system.
• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for these facilities.

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Long-Term Care Hospital - General Information (azum-44iv).

  Released Sep 23, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Long-Term Care Hospital - Provider Data (fp6g-2gsn).

  Released Sep 23, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider of Services File - Hospital & Non-Hospital Facilities (Hospital_and_other.DATA.Q2_2026.csv).

  Released Jul 15, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR Hospital 2567 statements of deficiencies (Hospital_2567s_2010_to_2026YTD.xlsx).

  Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital All Owners (Hospital_All_Owners_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Enrollments (Hospital_Enrollments_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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