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CMS certification 25039F

81st Medical Group (Keesler AFB)

81 MDG 301 Fisher St Suite 109, Biloxi, MS 39534

Acute Care - Department of Defense Emergency services

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for 81st Medical Group (Keesler AFB). 91% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. 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 Overall star ratings are not calculated for Department of Defense (DoD) hospitals.
Would definitely recommend 91% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 5/5 379 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: 379 completed surveys, 37% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
91%
MS 72% · US 71% · 5 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
91%
MS 73% · US 72% · 5 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
89%
MS 83% · US 80% · 5 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
87%
MS 84% · US 80% · 5 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
74%
MS 67% · US 62% · 5 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
93%
MS 86% · US 86% · 5 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
82%
MS 73% · US 74% · 5 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
80%
MS 70% · US 60% · 5 of 5 stars

This hospital Mississippi 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 MS US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 390 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 55 min 2 h 9 min 2 h 42 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 15,046 patients 1% 3% 2%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 18 patients 72% 64% 65%

How 81st Medical Group (Keesler AFB) 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
81st Medical Group (Keesler AFB)This hospitalNot rated91%1 h 55 min—
VA Gulf Coast Healthcare SystemSame city5/581%—2 better
Memorial Hospital BiloxiSame city1/548%2 h 33 min1 better 2 worse
Singing River GulfportSame county · Gulfport2/570%2 h 45 min1 better 3 worse
Memorial Hospital at GulfportSame county · Gulfport3/568%2 h 37 min2 better 1 worse
Ochsner Medical Center-HancockSame ZIP area · Bay Saint Louis3/574%2 h 27 min1 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. All hospitals in Biloxi.

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

  • 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 81st Medical Group (Keesler AFB)

Would patients recommend 81st Medical Group (Keesler AFB)?

91% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 379 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the 81st Medical Group (Keesler AFB) emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 55 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.