CMS certification 271348
Northern Montana Hospital
30 13th St, Havre, MT 59501
CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Northern Montana Hospital. On all 4 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 9 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: 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. 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 · 366 visits sampled | 2 h 9 min | 2 h 3 min | 2 h 42 min |
| Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 19 visits sampled | 1 h 59 min | 2 h 42 min | 4 h 17 min |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 57 cases | No different | 9.4 per 100 likely 6.6 per 100 – 13 per 100 | 10.7 per 100 |
| ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 57 cases | No different | 5.4 per 100 likely 3.5 per 100 – 8.2 per 100 | 5.4 per 100 |
12 more measures had too few cases here to report.
Not reported for this hospital
CMS had too few cases here to publish results for deaths, 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
27 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 |
|---|---|
| Dietitian, Registered | 4 |
| Family Medicine | 4 |
| Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered | 4 |
| Emergency Medicine | 3 |
| Body Imaging | 2 |
| Physician Assistant | 2 |
| Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology | 1 |
| Diabetes Educator | 1 |
| Medical | 1 |
| Nurse Practitioner | 1 |
| Pharmacist | 1 |
| Radiology Practitioner Assistant | 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 Northern Montana Hospital
Is Northern Montana Hospital a good hospital?
CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Northern Montana Hospital. On all 4 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.
How long is the wait in the Northern Montana Hospital emergency room?
Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 9 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.