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CMS certification 161345

Osceola Community Hospital

600 9th Avenue North, Sibley, IA 51249

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Osceola Community Hospital. On all 3 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 55 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 There are too few measures or measure groups reported to calculate a star rating or measure group score.
Would definitely recommend No survey results published
Patient survey rating Not rated HCAHPS patient survey
Compared with the nation 0 worse 0 better of 3 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

The number of cases/patients is too few to report.

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. These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.

Measure This hospital IA US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 889 visits sampled 1 h 55 min 2 h 3 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 33 visits sampled 3 h 4 min 3 h 37 min 4 h 17 min

How Osceola 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
Osceola Community HospitalThis hospitalNot rated—1 h 55 minNo different
Sioux Center HealthSame ZIP area · Sioux CenterNot rated83%2 h 1 min1 better
Hegg Memorial Health CenterSame ZIP area · Rock ValleyNot rated68%1 h 38 min1 better
Sanford Sheldon Medical CenterSame ZIP area · SheldonNot rated72%2 h 3 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 57 cases Too few cases 4.3% 3.9%

6 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, readmissions and return visits. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.

Clinicians registered at this address

11 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 5
Family 3
Emergency Medicine 1
Physical Therapist 1
Psychiatric/Mental Health 1

First 11 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 Osceola Community Hospital

Is Osceola Community Hospital a good hospital?

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Osceola Community Hospital. On all 3 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.

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

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 55 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.