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Medical Center Enterprise

400 N Edwards Street, Enterprise, AL 36330

Acute Care Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

Medical Center Enterprise has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. 59% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 15 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 2 and worse on none. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 22 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min).

Every figure on this page is published by CMS; we arrange and explain it, and score nothing ourselves.

CMS overall rating 4/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 59% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 3/5 340 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 2 better of 15 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 340 completed surveys, 17% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
59%
AL 71% · US 71% · 2 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
66%
AL 70% · US 72% · 3 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
81%
AL 80% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
80%
AL 82% · US 80% · 3 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
61%
AL 62% · US 62% · 3 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
84%
AL 85% · US 86% · 3 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
64%
AL 71% · US 74% · 2 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
67%
AL 67% · US 60% · 4 of 5 stars

This hospital Alabama average US average

Emergency department

How long emergency patients spent here and how some time-critical care went, from CMS's timely and effective care measures, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025. CMS classes this emergency department's patient volume as medium; busier departments tend to have longer times, so the national median for departments of the same volume is shown too. These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.

Measure This hospital AL US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 402 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 45 min 2 h 22 min 2 h 29 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 11 visits sampled 3 h 57 min 3 h 32 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 32,588 patients 1% 2% 2%
Stroke symptoms: brain scan read within 45 minutes Higher is better · 14 patients 79% 66% 69%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 118 patients 62% 64% 65%

How Medical Center Enterprise compares with nearby hospitals

The closest hospitals of the same kind that CMS rates or surveys - the same city first, then the same county and ZIP area. Every figure is CMS's: the overall star rating, the share of patients who would definitely recommend the hospital, the median time emergency patients spent before leaving, and how many death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS found better or worse than the national rate.

Hospital CMS stars Would recommend ER median time Vs the nation
Medical Center EnterpriseThis hospital4/559%2 h 22 min2 better
Flowers HospitalSame ZIP area · Dothan2/568%3 h 47 min4 better 2 worse
Southeast Health Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Dothan4/579%3 h 32 min4 better 1 worse
Dale Medical CenterSame ZIP area · OzarkNot rated73%2 h 28 min1 worse

Hospitals differ in size and in how sick their patients are. CMS adjusts its outcome measures for that, but a star or a percentage is a starting point for questions, not a verdict.

Deaths

How many patients died within 30 days of admission, adjusted by CMS for how sick they were. Lower is better. Data from Jul 2022 – Jun 2025.

Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
All patients, hospital-wide 684 cases Too few cases 4.6% 3.9%
Heart failure 85 cases Too few cases 12.5% 11.1%
Pneumonia 153 cases Too few cases 20.8% 15.2%
Stroke 52 cases Too few cases 14.5% 11.9%
COPD 41 cases Too few cases 9.5% 8.6%

2 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Complications

How often patients had serious complications, most of them after surgery, adjusted for how sick they were. Lower is better. Data from Jul 2022 – Jun 2024.

11 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Serious complications, combined measure No different 0.87 likely 0.41 – 1.32 1
After hip or knee replacement 164 cases Too few cases 4% 4.1%
Pressure ulcers (bed sores) 903 cases No different 0.43 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 1.54 per 1,000 0.63 per 1,000
Collapsed lung caused by a procedure 1,378 cases No different 0.2 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 0.43 per 1,000 0.21 per 1,000
Broken bones from falls in the hospital 1,290 cases No different 0.26 per 1,000 likely 0.05 per 1,000 – 0.47 per 1,000 0.27 per 1,000
Bleeding or hematoma after surgery 312 cases No different 2.26 per 1,000 likely 0.55 per 1,000 – 3.96 per 1,000 2.34 per 1,000
Kidney injury needing dialysis after surgery 202 cases No different 1.64 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 3.36 per 1,000 1.67 per 1,000
Breathing failure after surgery 208 cases No different 7.82 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 17.12 per 1,000 9.42 per 1,000
Blood clots in the lungs or legs after surgery 317 cases No different 3.15 per 1,000 likely 0.64 per 1,000 – 5.65 per 1,000 3.52 per 1,000
Sepsis after surgery 175 cases No different 5 per 1,000 likely 0.76 per 1,000 – 9.24 per 1,000 5.27 per 1,000
Surgical wound splitting open 43 cases No different 1.74 per 1,000 likely 0.22 per 1,000 – 3.26 per 1,000 1.77 per 1,000
Accidental cut or tear during abdominal surgery 87 cases No different 1.04 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 2.12 per 1,000 1.06 per 1,000

1 more measure had too few cases here to report.

Infections caught in the hospital

Standardized infection ratio: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one. Lower is better. Data from Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

1 better than the nation
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
C. diff intestinal infections Better 0 1

5 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Readmissions and return visits

How often patients had to come back to a hospital after going home. Lower is better. Data from Jul 2023 – Jun 2025.

2 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after heart failure 138 cases Too few cases 20.5% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 193 cases Too few cases 16.8% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 90 cases Too few cases 19.7% 20%
Readmitted after hip or knee replacement 155 cases Too few cases 5.3% 5.8%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 100 cases Too few cases -35.9 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 156 cases Too few cases 14.6 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 414 cases No different 12.1 per 1,000 likely 9.1 per 1,000 – 16.4 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 66 cases No different 1.2 likely 0.8 – 1.7 —

6 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Clinicians registered at this address

24 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry. The same address can take in offices and clinics in the building, and a listing does not prove admitting privileges or current employment.

Specialty Clinicians
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 7
Family 5
Emergency Medicine 3
Nurse Practitioner 3
Anesthesiology 2
Internal Medicine 1
Pharmacist 1
Physician Assistant 1
Women's Health 1

First 12 alphabetically

How to read this page

  • Everything here is published by CMS on Care Compare. We arrange it and explain it; the star ratings and the better / worse verdicts are CMS's, not ours.
  • “No different” is the most common result on most measures at most hospitals. CMS only calls a result better or worse when the difference from the national rate is statistically clear.
  • Death, complication and readmission rates are adjusted by CMS for how sick patients were, so hospitals that treat sicker patients can be compared fairly.
  • Infection results are ratios: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one, below 1.0 is fewer.
  • These are hospital-wide results. They do not rate an individual doctor, nurse or department, and they are not medical advice.

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Common questions about Medical Center Enterprise

Is Medical Center Enterprise a good hospital?

Medical Center Enterprise has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. Of the 15 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 2 and worse on none. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.

Would patients recommend Medical Center Enterprise?

59% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 340 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Medical Center Enterprise emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 22 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min). Among US emergency departments with medium patient volume, like this one, the median is 2 h 45 min. 1% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.