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Antelope Memorial Hospital

P O Box 229, 102 West 9th St, Neligh, NE 68756

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Antelope Memorial Hospital. 91% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. On all 3 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 57 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 There are too few measures or measure groups reported to calculate a star rating or measure group score.
Would definitely recommend 91% US average 71%
Patient survey rating Not rated 56 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 0 better of 3 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 56 completed surveys, 41% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Fewer than 100 patients completed the CAHPS survey. Use these scores with caution, as the number of surveys may be too low to reliably assess facility performance.
Would definitely recommend the hospital
91%
NE 78% · US 71%
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
85%
NE 79% · US 72%
Nurses always communicated well
90%
NE 84% · US 80%
Doctors always communicated well
90%
NE 84% · US 80%
Staff always explained new medicines
66%
NE 66% · US 62%
Given information about recovering at home
84%
NE 89% · US 86%
Room was always clean
88%
NE 78% · US 74%
Always quiet at night
78%
NE 69% · US 60%

This hospital Nebraska 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 NE US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 320 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 57 min 1 h 53 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 12 visits sampled 2 h 25 min 2 h 41 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 1,185 patients 0% 1% 2%

How Antelope Memorial Hospital 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
Antelope Memorial HospitalThis hospitalNot rated91%1 h 57 minNo different
Avera St Anthony's HospitalSame ZIP area · O' Neill4/582%1 h 55 minNo different
Osmond General HospitalSame ZIP area · OsmondNot rated79%1 h 54 minNo different
Providence Medical CenterSame ZIP area · WayneNot rated78%2 h 1 min—
St Francis Memorial HospitalSame ZIP area · West Point2/584%1 h 54 minNo different
West Holt Memorial HospitalSame ZIP area · AtkinsonNot rated93%1 h 50 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 49 cases Too few cases 4.8% 3.9%

6 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, 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.

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Common questions about Antelope Memorial Hospital

Is Antelope Memorial Hospital a good hospital?

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Antelope Memorial Hospital. On all 3 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.

Would patients recommend Antelope Memorial Hospital?

91% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 56 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Antelope Memorial Hospital emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 57 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. 0% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.