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Glendive Medical Center

202 Prospect Dr, Glendive, MT 59330

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

Glendive Medical Center has a CMS overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars. 68% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 8 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on none and worse on 1. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 2 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min).

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CMS overall rating 1/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 68% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 112 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 1 worse 0 better of 8 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 112 completed surveys, 24% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
68%
MT 75% · US 71% · 4 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
68%
MT 74% · US 72% · 3 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
80%
MT 82% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
76%
MT 82% · US 80% · 3 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
69%
MT 65% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
87%
MT 89% · US 86% · 3 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
68%
MT 74% · US 74% · 3 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
59%
MT 62% · US 60% · 4 of 5 stars

This hospital Montana 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 MT US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 393 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 2 h 2 min 2 h 3 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 26 visits sampled 3 h 30 min 2 h 42 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 4,506 patients 1% 2% 2%

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 177 cases Too few cases 5.1% 3.9%
Heart failure 32 cases Too few cases 13.9% 11.1%
Pneumonia 62 cases Too few cases 21.1% 15.2%
COPD 27 cases Too few cases 10.1% 8.6%

3 more measures 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 heart failure 27 cases Too few cases 22.5% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 53 cases Too few cases 17.4% 17.3%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 36 cases Too few cases 29.4 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 71 cases Too few cases 30.9 days per 100 —
Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 26 cases No different 10.1 per 100 likely 6.8 per 100 – 14.1 per 100 10.7 per 100
ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 26 cases No different 6 per 100 likely 3.9 per 100 – 9 per 100 5.4 per 100

8 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Not reported for this hospital

CMS had too few cases here to publish results for complications, infections caught in the hospital. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.

Clinicians registered at this address

21 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
Physician Assistant 7
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 5
Family 4
Clinical 1
Dietitian, Registered 1
Internal Medicine 1
Nurse Practitioner 1
Psychiatric/Mental Health 1

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.

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Common questions about Glendive Medical Center

Is Glendive Medical Center a good hospital?

Glendive Medical Center has a CMS overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars. Of the 8 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on none and worse on 1. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.

Would patients recommend Glendive Medical Center?

68% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 112 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Glendive Medical Center emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 2 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.