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Bartlett Regional Hospital
3260 Hospital Dr, Juneau, AK 99801
Bartlett Regional Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. 81% 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 1 and worse on none. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 49 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min).
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What patients said
Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 157 completed surveys, 17% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
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 low; 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 | AK | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 425 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min | 2 h 49 min | 2 h 16 min | 2 h 42 min |
| Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 58 visits sampled | 2 h 52 min | 3 h 18 min | 4 h 17 min |
| Left before being seen Lower is better · 11,852 patients | 1% | 1% | 2% |
| Stroke symptoms: brain scan read within 45 minutes Higher is better · 17 patients | 71% | 62% | 69% |
| Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 138 patients | 58% | 61% | 65% |
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 303 cases | Too few cases | 3.7% | 3.9% |
| Heart failure 67 cases | Too few cases | 10.4% | 11.1% |
| Pneumonia 81 cases | Too few cases | 12.2% | 15.2% |
| COPD 49 cases | Too few cases | 7.2% | 8.6% |
3 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.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serious complications, combined measure | No different | 1.13 likely 0.66 – 1.6 | 1 |
| Pressure ulcers (bed sores) 866 cases | No different | 0.98 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 2.11 per 1,000 | 0.63 per 1,000 |
| Collapsed lung caused by a procedure 1,009 cases | No different | 0.2 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 0.44 per 1,000 | 0.21 per 1,000 |
| Broken bones from falls in the hospital 965 cases | No different | 0.26 per 1,000 likely 0.05 per 1,000 – 0.48 per 1,000 | 0.27 per 1,000 |
| Bleeding or hematoma after surgery 145 cases | No different | 2.61 per 1,000 likely 0.9 per 1,000 – 4.33 per 1,000 | 2.34 per 1,000 |
| Blood clots in the lungs or legs after surgery 153 cases | No different | 4.21 per 1,000 likely 1.67 per 1,000 – 6.76 per 1,000 | 3.52 per 1,000 |
| Surgical wound splitting open 39 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 119 cases | No different | 1.02 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 2.1 per 1,000 | 1.06 per 1,000 |
5 more measures 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.
| 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.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Readmitted after heart failure 44 cases | Too few cases | 20.7% | 21.3% |
| Readmitted after pneumonia 69 cases | Too few cases | 16.4% | 17.3% |
| Readmitted after COPD 45 cases | Too few cases | 19.6% | 20% |
| Days back in hospital after heart failure 65 cases | Too few cases | 0.9 days per 100 | — |
| Days back in hospital after pneumonia 81 cases | Too few cases | -31.4 days per 100 | — |
| Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 843 cases | No different | 13.9 per 1,000 likely 10.5 per 1,000 – 18.3 per 1,000 | 13 per 1,000 |
| Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 54 cases | No different | 11.7 per 100 likely 7.9 per 100 – 17.2 per 100 | 10.7 per 100 |
| ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 54 cases | No different | 6.2 per 100 likely 3.9 per 100 – 9.7 per 100 | 5.4 per 100 |
| Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 179 cases | No different | 1.2 likely 0.8 – 1.6 | — |
5 more measures had too few cases here to report.
Clinicians registered at this address
95 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 |
|---|---|
| Behavior Technician | 19 |
| Emergency Medicine | 9 |
| Anesthesiology | 7 |
| Professional | 6 |
| Social Worker | 6 |
| Family | 5 |
| Physician Assistant | 4 |
| Mental Health | 3 |
| Psychiatric/Mental Health | 3 |
| Psychiatry | 3 |
| Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) | 2 |
| Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 2 |
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 Bartlett Regional Hospital
Is Bartlett Regional Hospital a good hospital?
Bartlett Regional Hospital 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 1 and worse on none. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.
Would patients recommend Bartlett Regional Hospital?
81% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 157 completed HCAHPS surveys.
How long is the wait in the Bartlett Regional Hospital emergency room?
Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 49 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min). Among US emergency departments with low patient volume, like this one, the median is 2 h 3 min. 1% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.