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Gibson Community Hospital

1120 N Melvin Street, Gibson City, IL 60936

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

Gibson Community Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. 74% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 13 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 52 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 4/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 74% US average 71%
Patient survey rating Not rated 82 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 1 better of 13 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 82 completed surveys, 11% 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
74%
IL 69% · US 71%
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
78%
IL 70% · US 72%
Nurses always communicated well
69%
IL 79% · US 80%
Doctors always communicated well
78%
IL 79% · US 80%
Staff always explained new medicines
60%
IL 61% · US 62%
Given information about recovering at home
91%
IL 86% · US 86%
Room was always clean
82%
IL 73% · US 74%
Always quiet at night
62%
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 · 86 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 2 h 52 min 2 h 42 min 2 h 42 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 6,836 patients 1% 3% 2%

How Gibson 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
Gibson Community HospitalThis hospital4/574%2 h 52 min1 better
Carle Hoopeston Regional Health CenterSame ZIP area · HoopestonNot rated74%—1 better
Presence St Marys HospitalSame ZIP area · Kankakee4/570%2 h 17 min1 better 1 worse
Riverside Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Kankakee4/569%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 285 cases Too few cases 4.7% 3.9%
Pneumonia 52 cases Too few cases 13.2% 15.2%
COPD 49 cases Too few cases 9.1% 8.6%

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 30 cases Too few cases 20.8% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 63 cases Too few cases 17% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 67 cases Too few cases 19.5% 20%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 27 cases Too few cases -34.7 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 54 cases Too few cases -27.2 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 479 cases No different 13 per 1,000 likely 9.7 per 1,000 – 17.3 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 101 cases No different 1 likely 0.7 – 1.5 —

7 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

41 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
Dentist 4
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 3
Physician Assistant 3
Urology 3
Acute Care 2
Clinical 2
Dietitian, Registered 2
Nurse Practitioner 2
Speech-Language Pathologist 2
Adult Health 1
Athletic Trainer 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.

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 Gibson Community Hospital

Is Gibson Community Hospital a good hospital?

Gibson Community Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. Of the 13 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 Gibson Community Hospital?

74% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 82 completed HCAHPS surveys.

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

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 52 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.