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CMS certification 26002F

General Leonard Wood ACH (FT Leonard Wood)

4430 Missouri Ave, Fort Leonard Wood, MO 65473

Acute Care - Department of Defense Emergency services

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for General Leonard Wood ACH (FT Leonard Wood). 69% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 16 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 69% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 194 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: 194 completed surveys, 25% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
69%
MO 71% · US 71% · 3 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
75%
MO 72% · US 72% · 4 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
84%
MO 79% · US 80% · 5 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
79%
MO 79% · US 80% · 2 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
67%
MO 61% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
87%
MO 87% · US 86% · 4 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
85%
MO 73% · US 74% · 5 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
82%
MO 61% · US 60% · 5 of 5 stars

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

Measure This hospital MO US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 401 visits sampled 2 h 16 min 2 h 35 min 2 h 42 min

How General Leonard Wood ACH (FT Leonard Wood) 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
General Leonard Wood ACH (FT Leonard Wood)This hospitalNot rated69%2 h 16 min—
Texas County Memorial HospitalSame ZIP area · Houston2/566%2 h 3 min2 worse
Phelps County Regional Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Rolla2/571%3 h 31 min1 better 4 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.

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.

Clinicians registered at this address

191 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
Clinical 21
Family 18
Physical Therapist 17
Physician Assistant 11
Case Management 10
Emergency Medicine 7
Dietitian, Registered 6
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 6
Pharmacist 6
Family Medicine 5
Licensed Practical Nurse 5
Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist 5

First 12 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.

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 General Leonard Wood ACH (FT Leonard Wood)

Would patients recommend General Leonard Wood ACH (FT Leonard Wood)?

69% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 194 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the General Leonard Wood ACH (FT Leonard Wood) emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 16 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.