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McLaren Macomb

1000 Harrington St, Mount Clemens, MI 48043

Acute Care Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

McLaren Macomb has a CMS overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars. 52% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 22 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on 2. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 52 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 1/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 52% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 2/5 641 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 2 worse 1 better of 22 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 641 completed surveys, 20% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
52%
MI 69% · US 71% · 2 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
55%
MI 69% · US 72% · 2 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
74%
MI 80% · US 80% · 2 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
77%
MI 78% · US 80% · 3 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
53%
MI 61% · US 62% · 2 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
83%
MI 87% · US 86% · 3 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
54%
MI 69% · US 74% · 1 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
40%
MI 57% · US 60% · 2 of 5 stars

This hospital Michigan 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 medium; 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 · 452 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 45 min 2 h 52 min 2 h 39 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 22 visits sampled 4 h 27 min 4 h 26 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 37,844 patients 1% 3% 2%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 280 patients 63% 60% 65%

How McLaren Macomb 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
McLaren MacombThis hospital1/552%2 h 52 min1 better 2 worse
Henry Ford Macomb HospitalSame county · Clinton Township3/566%5 h 6 min3 better 3 worse
Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital LLCSame county · WarrenNot rated75%—No different
Henry Ford Health Warren HospitalSame county · Warren1/549%3 h 23 min1 better 2 worse
Ascension River District HospitalSame ZIP area · East China3/574%2 h 2 minNo different
Lake Huron Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Port Huron4/568%2 h 48 min1 better

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 2,878 cases Too few cases 4.2% 3.9%
Heart attack 125 cases Too few cases 11.3% 11.9%
Heart failure 366 cases Too few cases 10.9% 11.1%
Pneumonia 339 cases Too few cases 16.6% 15.2%
Stroke 369 cases Too few cases 11.6% 11.9%
COPD 139 cases Too few cases 10.4% 8.6%

1 more measure had too few cases here to report.

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.

12 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Serious complications, combined measure No different 1.21 likely 0.88 – 1.54 1
Deaths after a serious but treatable surgical complication 74 cases No different 138.61 per 1,000 likely 90.01 per 1,000 – 187.2 per 1,000 173.3 per 1,000
Pressure ulcers (bed sores) 4,429 cases No different 0.8 per 1,000 likely 0.09 per 1,000 – 1.51 per 1,000 0.63 per 1,000
Collapsed lung caused by a procedure 5,115 cases No different 0.16 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 0.37 per 1,000 0.21 per 1,000
Broken bones from falls in the hospital 5,186 cases No different 0.37 per 1,000 likely 0.17 per 1,000 – 0.57 per 1,000 0.27 per 1,000
Bleeding or hematoma after surgery 1,086 cases No different 2.28 per 1,000 likely 0.77 per 1,000 – 3.79 per 1,000 2.34 per 1,000
Kidney injury needing dialysis after surgery 370 cases No different 2.92 per 1,000 likely 1.36 per 1,000 – 4.48 per 1,000 1.67 per 1,000
Breathing failure after surgery 367 cases No different 11.41 per 1,000 likely 4.5 per 1,000 – 18.31 per 1,000 9.42 per 1,000
Blood clots in the lungs or legs after surgery 1,140 cases No different 3.69 per 1,000 likely 1.54 per 1,000 – 5.84 per 1,000 3.52 per 1,000
Sepsis after surgery 354 cases No different 6.48 per 1,000 likely 2.96 per 1,000 – 10 per 1,000 5.27 per 1,000
Surgical wound splitting open 192 cases No different 1.98 per 1,000 likely 0.49 per 1,000 – 3.46 per 1,000 1.77 per 1,000
Accidental cut or tear during abdominal surgery 836 cases No different 0.88 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 1.87 per 1,000 1.06 per 1,000

1 more measure 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.

2 better than the nation 3 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Bloodstream infections from central lines (CLABSI) No different 0.29 likely 0.01 – 1.41 1
Urinary tract infections from catheters (CAUTI) Better 0.18 likely 0.01 – 0.9 1
Surgical site infections after colon surgery No different 0.39 likely 0.02 – 1.91 1
MRSA bloodstream infections No different 0.56 likely 0.09 – 1.85 1
C. diff intestinal infections Better 0.17 likely 0.06 – 0.42 1

1 more measure 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 a heart attack 215 cases Too few cases 14.2% 14.4%
Readmitted after heart failure 701 cases Too few cases 22.9% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 574 cases Too few cases 18.7% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 282 cases Too few cases 20.3% 20%
Readmitted after heart bypass surgery 33 cases Too few cases 11.6% 11%
Days back in hospital after a heart attack 141 cases Too few cases 17.1 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after heart failure 448 cases Too few cases 27.1 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 350 cases Too few cases 14.4 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 255 cases No different 12.9 per 1,000 likely 9.5 per 1,000 – 17 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 327 cases No different 1.2 likely 0.9 – 1.5 —

4 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Clinicians registered at this address

290 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry, plus 107 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
Emergency Medicine 62
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 30
Internal Medicine 29
Family Medicine 19
Diagnostic Radiology 15
Surgery 14
Physical Therapist 12
Clinical 11
Family 11
Orthopaedic Surgery 9
Cardiovascular Disease 8
Acute Care 6

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.

2025 total $10,585 general $10,585 · research $0
All years, 2019–2025 $195,498 158 reported payments
  • 2019 $63,808
  • 2020 $66,830
  • 2021 $31,060
  • 2022 $109
  • 2023 $18,857
  • 2024 $4,249
  • 2025 $10,585

General payments Research payments

What the 2025 general payments were for

Type of payment Amount Payments
Grants $5,750 3
Space rental and facility fees $2,000 1
Education $2,000 1
Medical devices and supplies on long-term loan $835 3

Largest paying companies, 2025

Company Amount Payments
Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $3,750 1
Abbott Laboratories $3,000 2
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2,000 1
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $1,000 1
Stryker Corporation $835 3

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.

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 McLaren Macomb

Is McLaren Macomb a good hospital?

McLaren Macomb has a CMS overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars. Of the 22 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on 2. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.

Would patients recommend McLaren Macomb?

52% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 641 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the McLaren Macomb emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 52 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min). Among US emergency departments with medium patient volume, like this one, the median is 2 h 45 min. 1% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.

Does McLaren Macomb receive money from drug and device companies?

Drug and device makers reported $10,585 in payments to McLaren Macomb for 2025, under the federal Open Payments program. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.