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Abrazo Central Campus

2000 West Bethany Home Road, Phoenix, AZ 85015

Acute Care Hospitals Emergency services

Abrazo Central Campus has a CMS overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars. 54% 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 34 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 2/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 54% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 1/5 325 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: 325 completed surveys, 9% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
54%
AZ 68% · US 71% · 1 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
58%
AZ 68% · US 72% · 2 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
69%
AZ 77% · US 80% · 1 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
66%
AZ 76% · US 80% · 1 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
53%
AZ 60% · US 62% · 1 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
75%
AZ 84% · US 86% · 1 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
63%
AZ 70% · US 74% · 3 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
50%
AZ 56% · US 60% · 2 of 5 stars

This hospital Arizona 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 AZ US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 449 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 45 min 2 h 34 min 2 h 56 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 23 visits sampled 3 h 25 min 4 h 33 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 35,189 patients 4% 2% 2%
Stroke symptoms: brain scan read within 45 minutes Higher is better · 12 patients 92% 70% 69%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 140 patients 44% 59% 65%

How Abrazo Central Campus 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
Abrazo Central CampusThis hospital2/554%2 h 34 min2 better
The Core Institute Specialty HospSame cityNot rated75%—1 better
Phoenix Indian Medical CenterSame cityNot rated70%—No different
St Josephs Hospital and Medical CenterSame city4/575%2 h 55 min4 better 2 worse
Phoenix VA Medical CenterSame city5/565%—4 better
Honor Health John C. Lincoln Medical CenterSame city3/572%3 h 10 min5 better 3 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. All hospitals in Phoenix.

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 803 cases Too few cases 3.6% 3.9%
Heart failure 40 cases Too few cases 10.5% 11.1%
Pneumonia 94 cases Too few cases 14.9% 15.2%
Stroke 65 cases Too few cases 9.9% 11.9%

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.

8 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Serious complications, combined measure No different 0.95 likely 0.49 – 1.4 1
Pressure ulcers (bed sores) 960 cases No different 0.37 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 1.41 per 1,000 0.63 per 1,000
Collapsed lung caused by a procedure 1,118 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 1,170 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 148 cases No different 2.57 per 1,000 likely 0.87 per 1,000 – 4.27 per 1,000 2.34 per 1,000
Blood clots in the lungs or legs after surgery 157 cases No different 4.13 per 1,000 likely 1.61 per 1,000 – 6.65 per 1,000 3.52 per 1,000
Surgical wound splitting open 54 cases No different 1.73 per 1,000 likely 0.21 per 1,000 – 3.25 per 1,000 1.77 per 1,000
Accidental cut or tear during abdominal surgery 241 cases No different 1 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 2.06 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.

1 better than the nation 4 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Bloodstream infections from central lines (CLABSI) No different 0 1
Urinary tract infections from catheters (CAUTI) No different 0.43 likely 0.02 – 2.13 1
Surgical site infections after colon surgery No different 0 1
MRSA bloodstream infections No different 0 1
C. diff intestinal infections Better 0.25 likely 0.09 – 0.54 1

1 more measure 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 a heart attack 36 cases Too few cases 14.7% 14.4%
Readmitted after heart failure 122 cases Too few cases 21.2% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 277 cases Too few cases 17% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 58 cases Too few cases 20.6% 20%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 44 cases Too few cases -60.3 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 90 cases Too few cases -0.6 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 50 cases No different 13 per 1,000 likely 9.3 per 1,000 – 17.5 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 104 cases No different 0.8 likely 0.6 – 1.2 —

6 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Clinicians registered at this address

73 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry, plus 25 residents and trainees. 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
Emergency Medicine 25
Family Medicine 16
Physician Assistant 6
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 4
Acute Care 3
Pharmacist 3
Anesthesiology 2
Critical Care Medicine 2
Hospitalist 2
Nurse Practitioner 2
Registered Nurse 2
Adult Medicine 1

First 12 alphabetically

Money from drug and device companies

Drug and device makers have to report what they pay teaching hospitals to CMS's Open Payments program. At many teaching hospitals most of it is research funding, or royalties for inventions the hospital licensed to a company. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.

2025 total $91 general $91 · research $0
All years, 2019–2025 $65,919 45 reported payments
  • 2019 $22,824
  • 2020 $3,671
  • 2021 $3,774
  • 2022 $7,460
  • 2023 $27,350
  • 2024 $749
  • 2025 $91

General payments Research payments

What the 2025 general payments were for

Type of payment Amount Payments
Debt forgiveness $91 1

Largest paying companies, 2025

Company Amount Payments
Stryker Corporation $91 1

Amounts are as the paying companies reported them to CMS; Open Payments data retrieved 13 Sep 2026. Full record on CMS Open Payments.

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.

CMS Care Compare data retrieved 4 Oct 2026, refreshed weekly. Where this data comes from and how we handle it · Report an error

Common questions about Abrazo Central Campus

Is Abrazo Central Campus a good hospital?

Abrazo Central Campus has a CMS overall rating of 2 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 Abrazo Central Campus?

54% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 325 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Abrazo Central Campus emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 34 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. 4% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.

Does Abrazo Central Campus receive money from drug and device companies?

Drug and device makers reported $91 in payments to Abrazo Central Campus for 2025, under the federal Open Payments program. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.