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Paris Community Hospital

721 E Court Street, Paris, IL 61944

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

Paris Community Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. 84% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 11 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on none and worse on 1. Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 49 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min).

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CMS overall rating 3/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 84% US average 71%
Patient survey rating Not rated 98 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 1 worse 0 better of 11 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 98 completed surveys, 32% 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
84%
IL 69% · US 71%
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
89%
IL 70% · US 72%
Nurses always communicated well
92%
IL 79% · US 80%
Doctors always communicated well
93%
IL 79% · US 80%
Staff always explained new medicines
70%
IL 61% · US 62%
Given information about recovering at home
93%
IL 86% · US 86%
Room was always clean
88%
IL 73% · US 74%
Always quiet at night
70%
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 · 421 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 49 min 2 h 42 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 25 visits sampled 3 h 22 min 4 h 48 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 10,778 patients 1% 3% 2%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 12 patients 92% 63% 65%

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 195 cases Too few cases 4.7% 3.9%
Pneumonia 26 cases Too few cases 16.4% 15.2%
COPD 46 cases Too few cases 10% 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.

Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after pneumonia 27 cases Too few cases 17.7% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 41 cases Too few cases 21.3% 20%
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 29 cases Too few cases 13.8 days per 100 —

11 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

40 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 9
Physical Therapist 5
Dietitian, Registered 4
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 3
Nurse Practitioner 3
Athletic Trainer 2
Hospitalist 2
Occupational Therapist 2
Physical Therapy Assistant 2
Surgical Assistant 2
Anesthesiology 1
Emergency 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 Paris Community Hospital

Is Paris Community Hospital a good hospital?

Paris Community Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. Of the 11 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on none and worse on 1. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.

Would patients recommend Paris Community Hospital?

84% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 98 completed HCAHPS surveys.

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

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 49 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.