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CMS certification 031317

La Paz Regional Hospital

1200 West Mohave Road, Parker, AZ 85344

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

La Paz Regional Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars. 68% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. On all 8 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate.

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 68% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 3/5 128 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 0 better of 8 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 128 completed surveys, 33% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
68%
AZ 68% · US 71% · 3 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
59%
AZ 68% · US 72% · 3 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
75%
AZ 77% · US 80% · 3 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
72%
AZ 76% · US 80% · 2 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
52%
AZ 60% · US 62% · 1 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
84%
AZ 84% · US 86% · 3 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
75%
AZ 70% · US 74% · 4 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
61%
AZ 56% · US 60% · 4 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 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 AZ US
Left before being seen Lower is better · 10,247 patients 1% 2% 2%

How La Paz Regional Hospital 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
La Paz Regional HospitalThis hospital2/568%—No different
Dignity Health - Arizona General HospitalSame ZIP area · LaveenNot rated73%1 h 44 min1 better
City of Hope Cancer Center PhoenixSame ZIP area · Goodyear4/586%—1 better
Banner Boswell Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Sun City3/562%3 h 44 min3 better 5 worse
Yuma Regional Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Yuma2/563%3 h 12 min1 better 3 worse
Exceptional Community Hospital YumaSame ZIP area · YumaNot rated77%—No different

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 Parker.

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 163 cases Too few cases 4.5% 3.9%
Pneumonia 42 cases Too few cases 16.4% 15.2%
COPD 41 cases Too few cases 10.9% 8.6%

4 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.

1 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after heart failure 32 cases Too few cases 22.2% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 54 cases Too few cases 17.1% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 38 cases Too few cases 20.3% 20%
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 40 cases Too few cases -3 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 76 cases No different 13.4 per 1,000 likely 9.8 per 1,000 – 18.2 per 1,000 13 per 1,000

9 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Not reported for this hospital

CMS had too few cases here to publish results for complications, infections caught in the hospital. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.

Clinicians registered at this address

25 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
Family 5
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 4
Emergency Medicine 2
Family Medicine 2
Medical 2
Physical Therapist 2
Registered Nurse 2
Administrator 1
Critical Care 1
Nurse Practitioner 1
Physician Assistant 1
Registered Nurse First Assistant 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 La Paz Regional Hospital

Is La Paz Regional Hospital a good hospital?

La Paz Regional Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars. On all 8 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.

Would patients recommend La Paz Regional Hospital?

68% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 128 completed HCAHPS surveys.

Does La Paz Regional Hospital have an emergency room?

Yes. CMS lists emergency services at La Paz Regional Hospital.