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Illini Community Hospital

640 W Washington, Pittsfield, IL 62363

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

Illini Community Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. 83% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 9 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 1 h 57 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 3/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 83% US average 71%
Patient survey rating Not rated 75 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 1 better of 9 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 75 completed surveys, 35% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Fewer than 100 patients completed the CAHPS survey. Use these scores with caution, as the number of surveys may be too low to reliably assess facility performance.
Would definitely recommend the hospital
83%
IL 69% · US 71%
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
84%
IL 70% · US 72%
Nurses always communicated well
92%
IL 79% · US 80%
Doctors always communicated well
89%
IL 79% · US 80%
Staff always explained new medicines
79%
IL 61% · US 62%
Given information about recovering at home
91%
IL 86% · US 86%
Room was always clean
76%
IL 73% · US 74%
Always quiet at night
61%
IL 59% · US 60%

This hospital Illinois 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 IL US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 340 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 57 min 2 h 42 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 13 visits sampled 3 h 28 min 4 h 48 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 6,252 patients 0% 3% 2%
Stroke symptoms: brain scan read within 45 minutes Higher is better · 15 patients 73% 75% 69%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 20 patients 75% 63% 65%

How Illini Community 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
Illini Community HospitalThis hospital3/583%1 h 57 min1 better
Memorial HospitalSame ZIP area · Carthage4/585%2 h 22 min1 worse
Blessing HospitalSame ZIP area · Quincy4/567%2 h 47 min2 better

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 158 cases Too few cases 5.2% 3.9%
Heart failure 39 cases Too few cases 14.3% 11.1%
Pneumonia 69 cases Too few cases 21% 15.2%
COPD 32 cases Too few cases 7.8% 8.6%

3 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 38 cases Too few cases 21.5% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 68 cases Too few cases 17% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 48 cases Too few cases 20.7% 20%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 43 cases Too few cases -50.6 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 69 cases Too few cases 2.8 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 100 cases No different 12.9 per 1,000 likely 9.5 per 1,000 – 17.6 per 1,000 13 per 1,000

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, 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

28 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
Emergency Medicine 4
Family 4
Nurse Practitioner 3
Pharmacist 3
Emergency Medical Services 2
Family Medicine 2
Physical Therapist 2
Clinical 1
Gerontology 1
Internal Medicine 1
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 1
Orthopaedic Surgery 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 Illini Community Hospital

Is Illini Community Hospital a good hospital?

Illini Community Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. Of the 9 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 Illini Community Hospital?

83% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 75 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Illini Community Hospital emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 57 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. 0% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.