CMS certification 181334
Kentucky River Medical Center
540 Jett Drive, Jackson, KY 41339
CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Kentucky River Medical Center. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 3 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.
What patients said
Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
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 | KY | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 374 visits sampled | 2 h 3 min | 2 h 30 min | 2 h 42 min |
| Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 16 visits sampled | 3 h 8 min | 3 h 30 min | 4 h 17 min |
Not reported for this hospital
CMS had too few cases here to publish results for deaths, 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.
How to read this page
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- “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 Kentucky River Medical Center
How long is the wait in the Kentucky River Medical Center emergency room?
Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 3 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.