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Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak
3601 W Thirteen Mile Rd, Royal Oak, MI 48073
Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. 62% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 27 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 6 and worse on 3. Emergency patients spend a median of 4 h 26 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: 1,345 completed surveys, 25% response rate, 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. CMS classes this emergency department's patient volume as very high; 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 | MI | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 405 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 3 h 21 min | 4 h 26 min | 2 h 39 min | 2 h 42 min |
| Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 22 visits sampled | 7 h 42 min | 4 h 26 min | 4 h 17 min |
| Left before being seen Lower is better · 124,945 patients | 4% | 3% | 2% |
| Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 142 patients | 60% | 60% | 65% |
How Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont Hospital Royal OakThis hospital | 3/5 | 62% | 4 h 26 min | 6 better 3 worse |
| Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield and NoviSame county · Southfield | 4/5 | 65% | 3 h 16 min | 5 better 2 worse |
| Surgeons Choice Medical CenterSame county · Southfield | Not rated | 77% | — | No different |
| Beaumont Hospital, TroySame county · Troy | 4/5 | 65% | 3 h 23 min | 4 better 5 worse |
| Ascension Providence Rochester HospitalSame county · Rochester | 3/5 | 57% | 3 h 7 min | 2 better |
| Henry Ford Health West Bloomfield HospitalSame county · W Bloomfield | 3/5 | 70% | 4 h 2 min | 3 better 3 worse |
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 9,313 cases | Too few cases | 2.7% | 3.9% |
| Heart attack 349 cases | Too few cases | 11.3% | 11.9% |
| Heart failure 1,298 cases | Too few cases | 7.1% | 11.1% |
| Pneumonia 869 cases | Too few cases | 12.4% | 15.2% |
| Stroke 665 cases | Too few cases | 9.3% | 11.9% |
| COPD 300 cases | Too few cases | 8.4% | 8.6% |
| Heart bypass surgery (CABG) 172 cases | Too few cases | 2.5% | 2.4% |
Complications
How often patients had serious complications, most of them after surgery, adjusted for how sick they were. Lower is better. Data from Jul 2022 – Jun 2024.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serious complications, combined measure | Worse | 1.64 likely 1.45 – 1.82 | 1 |
| After hip or knee replacement 234 cases | Too few cases | 4.1% | 4.1% |
| Deaths after a serious but treatable surgical complication 235 cases | No different | 166.82 per 1,000 likely 134.79 per 1,000 – 198.85 per 1,000 | 173.3 per 1,000 |
| Pressure ulcers (bed sores) 18,257 cases | Worse | 2.22 per 1,000 likely 1.84 per 1,000 – 2.6 per 1,000 | 0.63 per 1,000 |
| Collapsed lung caused by a procedure 19,718 cases | No different | 0.17 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 0.33 per 1,000 | 0.21 per 1,000 |
| Broken bones from falls in the hospital 20,768 cases | No different | 0.23 per 1,000 likely 0.07 per 1,000 – 0.38 per 1,000 | 0.27 per 1,000 |
| Bleeding or hematoma after surgery 5,004 cases | No different | 2.83 per 1,000 likely 1.78 per 1,000 – 3.88 per 1,000 | 2.34 per 1,000 |
| Kidney injury needing dialysis after surgery 2,500 cases | No different | 2.61 per 1,000 likely 1.49 per 1,000 – 3.72 per 1,000 | 1.67 per 1,000 |
| Breathing failure after surgery 2,519 cases | No different | 10.64 per 1,000 likely 7.26 per 1,000 – 14.02 per 1,000 | 9.42 per 1,000 |
| Blood clots in the lungs or legs after surgery 5,417 cases | Worse | 5.4 per 1,000 likely 4.05 per 1,000 – 6.75 per 1,000 | 3.52 per 1,000 |
| Sepsis after surgery 2,554 cases | No different | 5.72 per 1,000 likely 3.49 per 1,000 – 7.94 per 1,000 | 5.27 per 1,000 |
| Surgical wound splitting open 1,432 cases | No different | 2.17 per 1,000 likely 0.9 per 1,000 – 3.44 per 1,000 | 1.77 per 1,000 |
| Accidental cut or tear during abdominal surgery 4,298 cases | No different | 1.39 per 1,000 likely 0.7 per 1,000 – 2.09 per 1,000 | 1.06 per 1,000 |
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.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloodstream infections from central lines (CLABSI) | No different | 0.73 likely 0.48 – 1.06 | 1 |
| Urinary tract infections from catheters (CAUTI) | Better | 0.3 likely 0.17 – 0.49 | 1 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery | No different | 0.61 likely 0.3 – 1.12 | 1 |
| Surgical site infections after abdominal hysterectomy | No different | 1.32 likely 0.42 – 3.18 | 1 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections | No different | 0.67 likely 0.38 – 1.12 | 1 |
| C. diff intestinal infections | Better | 0.37 likely 0.28 – 0.48 | 1 |
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 a heart attack 582 cases | Too few cases | 14.3% | 14.4% |
| Readmitted after heart failure 2,362 cases | Too few cases | 21.2% | 21.3% |
| Readmitted after pneumonia 1,277 cases | Too few cases | 16.4% | 17.3% |
| Readmitted after COPD 529 cases | Too few cases | 19.7% | 20% |
| Readmitted after heart bypass surgery 248 cases | Too few cases | 10.3% | 11% |
| Readmitted after hip or knee replacement 204 cases | Too few cases | 5.3% | 5.8% |
| Days back in hospital after a heart attack 362 cases | Too few cases | 20.2 days per 100 | — |
| Days back in hospital after heart failure 1,590 cases | Too few cases | 19.3 days per 100 | — |
| Days back in hospital after pneumonia 879 cases | Too few cases | 14.8 days per 100 | — |
| Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 2,043 cases | No different | 13.3 per 1,000 likely 10.6 per 1,000 – 16.9 per 1,000 | 13 per 1,000 |
| Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 165 cases | No different | 9.9 per 100 likely 7.2 per 100 – 13.5 per 100 | 10.7 per 100 |
| ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 165 cases | No different | 4.3 per 100 likely 2.8 per 100 – 6.6 per 100 | 5.4 per 100 |
| Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 1,838 cases | No different | 0.9 likely 0.8 – 1.1 | — |
1 more measure had too few cases here to report.
Clinicians registered at this address
15 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry, plus 2 residents and trainees. 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 |
|---|---|
| Internal Medicine | 6 |
| Emergency Medicine | 3 |
| Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | 2 |
| Acute Care | 1 |
| Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine | 1 |
| Diagnostic Radiology | 1 |
| Family | 1 |
First 12 alphabetically
Money from drug and device companies
Drug and device makers have to report what they pay teaching hospitals to CMS's Open Payments program. At many teaching hospitals most of it is research funding, or royalties for inventions the hospital licensed to a company. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.
- 2019 $880,515
- 2020 $813,670
- 2021 $1.4M
- 2022 $1.4M
- 2023 $1.8M
- 2024 $1.2M
- 2025 $598,926
What the 2025 general payments were for
| Type of payment | Amount | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Space rental and facility fees | $283,221 | 21 |
| Speaking, teaching and other services | $30,000 | 4 |
| Education | $1,250 | 1 |
| Medical devices and supplies on long-term loan | $726 | 1 |
| Debt forgiveness | $274 | 5 |
Largest paying companies, 2025
| Company | Amount | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | $255,395 | 13 |
| B. Braun Medical Inc. | $65,000 | 1 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | $51,878 | 5 |
| Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. | $43,292 | 13 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | $35,603 | 7 |
| Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation | $32,958 | 3 |
| Qiagen, LLC | $23,213 | 2 |
| Coloplast Corp | $18,606 | 7 |
Largest research studies funded here, 2025
| Study | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHOOSING THE RIGHT LENGTH IV CATHETER BASED ON DEPTH OF VEIN FOR ULTRASOUND-GUIDED INSERTIONS B. Braun Medical Inc. | $65,000 |
| A Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing the Safety and Effectiveness of Prodisc C SK and Prodisc C Vivo to Mobi-C Cervical… Centinel Spine, LLC | $51,878 |
| Shoulder Arthroplasty Long-term PMCF Study Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. | $30,267 |
| An International Prospective Open-label, Multi-center, Randomized Phase III Study comparing [177Lu] Lu-PSMA-617 versus Observation to delay castratio… Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation | $19,768 |
| INTIBIA COLOPLAST CORP | $18,606 |
| VITEK REVEAL EEP bioMerieux Inc | $14,897 |
| QIASTAT-DX CUTI PLUS AMR PANEL CLINICAL PERFORMANCE STUDY QIAGEN, LLC | $12,413 |
| A Phase IV, Post-Authorization Safety Study to Investigate the Long-Term Safety of lutetium (177Lu) vipivotide tetraxetan in Adult Participants with … Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation | $11,000 |
Amounts are as the paying companies reported them to CMS; Open Payments data retrieved 13 Sep 2026. Full record on CMS Open Payments.
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 Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak
Is Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak a good hospital?
Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. Of the 27 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 6 and worse on 3. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.
Would patients recommend Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak?
62% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 1,345 completed HCAHPS surveys.
How long is the wait in the Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak emergency room?
Emergency patients spend a median of 4 h 26 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min). Among US emergency departments with very high patient volume, like this one, the median is 3 h 21 min. 4% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.
Does Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak receive money from drug and device companies?
Drug and device makers reported $598,926 in payments to Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak for 2025, under the federal Open Payments program. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.