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CMS certification 151329

Margaret Mary Community Hospital INC

321 Mitchell Ave, Batesville, IN 47006

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Margaret Mary Community Hospital. 69% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 12 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 Not rated Results are not available for this reporting period.
Would definitely recommend 69% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 143 completed surveys
Compared with the nation Too few cases for CMS to compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 143 completed surveys, 17% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
69%
IN 71% · US 71% · 4 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
74%
IN 73% · US 72% · 4 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
80%
IN 80% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
85%
IN 79% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
59%
IN 60% · US 62% · 2 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
91%
IN 87% · US 86% · 4 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
82%
IN 73% · US 74% · 5 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
54%
IN 60% · US 60% · 3 of 5 stars

This hospital Indiana 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 IN US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 410 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 2 h 12 min 2 h 25 min 2 h 42 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 19,459 patients 1% 2% 2%
Stroke symptoms: brain scan read within 45 minutes Higher is better · 14 patients 100% 71% 69%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 147 patients 78% 60% 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 294 cases Too few cases 5.3% 3.9%
Heart failure 55 cases Too few cases 11.8% 11.1%
Pneumonia 67 cases Too few cases 17.3% 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 worse than the nation
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
C. diff intestinal infections Worse 2.91 likely 1.35 – 5.52 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 50 cases Too few cases 22% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 79 cases Too few cases 17.3% 17.3%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 63 cases Too few cases 32.8 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 81 cases Too few cases 37.1 days per 100 —
Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 104 cases No different 10.2 per 100 likely 7 per 100 – 14.9 per 100 10.7 per 100
ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 104 cases No different 6.1 per 100 likely 4 per 100 – 9.1 per 100 5.4 per 100

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

52 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
Dietitian, Registered 9
Nurse Practitioner 4
Physical Therapy Assistant 4
Emergency Medicine 3
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 3
Physical Therapist 3
Specialist 3
Clinical 2
Diagnostic Radiology 2
Family 2
Hospitalist 2
Internal Medicine 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.

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 Margaret Mary Community Hospital

Would patients recommend Margaret Mary Community Hospital?

69% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 143 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Margaret Mary Community Hospital emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 12 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.