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Cassia Regional Hospital

1501 Hiland Avenue, Burley, ID 83318

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

Cassia Regional Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. 67% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. On all 9 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 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 3/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 67% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 232 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 0 better of 9 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 232 completed surveys, 21% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
67%
ID 75% · US 71% · 4 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
78%
ID 75% · US 72% · 4 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
82%
ID 82% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
84%
ID 83% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
65%
ID 65% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
89%
ID 90% · US 86% · 4 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
82%
ID 76% · US 74% · 4 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
63%
ID 63% · US 60% · 4 of 5 stars

This hospital Idaho 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 ID US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 456 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 2 h 2 h 22 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 21 visits sampled 4 h 10 min 3 h 23 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 10,905 patients 1% 1% 2%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 116 patients 57% 68% 65%

How Cassia 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
Cassia Regional HospitalThis hospital3/567%2 hNo different
North Canyon Medical CenterSame ZIP area · GoodingNot rated95%1 h 56 min1 better
St Lukes Magic Valley Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Twin Falls4/563%3 h 6 min3 better
St Luke's JeromeSame ZIP area · JeromeNot rated57%1 h 40 minNo different
St Luke's Wood River Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Ketchum4/581%2 h 20 minNo different
Minidoka Memorial HospitalSame ZIP area · RupertNot rated72%1 h 46 minNo 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.

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 296 cases Too few cases 4.4% 3.9%
Heart failure 28 cases Too few cases 12.3% 11.1%
Pneumonia 80 cases Too few cases 16.5% 15.2%

4 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 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
C. diff intestinal infections No different 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 32 cases Too few cases 21.8% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 77 cases Too few cases 16.6% 17.3%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 26 cases Too few cases 27.5 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 82 cases Too few cases -27.6 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 31 cases No different 13.9 per 1,000 likely 10.1 per 1,000 – 19.4 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 38 cases No different 1 likely 0.7 – 1.5 —

8 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. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.

Clinicians registered at this address

66 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 Medicine 8
Dietitian, Registered 6
Emergency Medicine 6
Physical Therapist 6
Speech-Language Pathologist 6
Internal Medicine 3
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 3
Nurse Practitioner 2
Occupational Therapist 2
Occupational Therapy Assistant 2
Orthopaedic Surgery 2
Physical Therapy Assistant 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 Cassia Regional Hospital

Is Cassia Regional Hospital a good hospital?

Cassia Regional Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. On all 9 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 Cassia Regional Hospital?

67% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 232 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Cassia Regional Hospital emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 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.