Rice Medical Center

Rice Medical Center is a for-profit proprietary hospital located in Eagle Lake, TX, holding CMS certification number 451312. Spring News covers Eagle Lake-area healthcare news, including major facility changes, regulatory ratings, and service-line developments at Rice Medical Center.

As a critical-access hospital, Rice Medical Center provides 24-hour emergency and inpatient care for a primarily rural service area, with a maximum of 25 inpatient beds and an average length of stay under 96 hours. The facility operates a 24-hour emergency department.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not assigned Rice Medical Center an overall quality rating in the most recent reporting cycle. This may indicate the hospital is too small to generate statistically significant data, recently opened, or has not yet submitted complete reporting. Spring News updates ratings annually as new CMS data is released.

For Eagle Lake residents, Rice Medical Center is one of the hospital options to weigh when choosing emergency care, surgical care, or specialty services. Spring News regularly reports on hospital expansions, closures, leadership changes, and major regulatory actions affecting Eagle Lake-area healthcare facilities — including Rice Medical Center.

Story tip about Rice Medical Center? Email editor@nexcom.media. For more healthcare coverage, visit springnews.org/news. This profile uses public data from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (Hospital General Information dataset) and is updated as CMS releases new reporting cycles.