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York General Health Care Services

2222 Lincoln Ave, York, NE 68467

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

York General Health Care Services has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. 75% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 12 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on 1. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 6 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 4/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 75% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 199 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 1 worse 1 better of 12 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 199 completed surveys, 35% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
75%
NE 78% · US 71% · 4 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
78%
NE 79% · US 72% · 4 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
79%
NE 84% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
81%
NE 84% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
66%
NE 66% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
93%
NE 89% · US 86% · 5 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
77%
NE 78% · US 74% · 4 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
66%
NE 69% · US 60% · 5 of 5 stars

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. 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 · 199 visits sampled 2 h 6 min 1 h 53 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 15 visits sampled 3 h 14 min 2 h 41 min 4 h 17 min

How York General Health Care Services 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
York General Health Care ServicesThis hospital4/575%2 h 6 min1 better 1 worse
Johnson County HospitalSame ZIP area · TecumsehNot rated90%1 h 46 minNo different
Syracuse Area HealthSame ZIP area · SyracuseNot rated97%1 h 46 min1 better
Memorial Health Care SystemsSame ZIP area · Seward3/574%1 h 39 min1 better
Chi Health St Mary'sSame ZIP area · Nebraska City4/575%1 h 56 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 228 cases Too few cases 6.1% 3.9%
Heart failure 38 cases Too few cases 12.5% 11.1%
Pneumonia 88 cases Too few cases 16.8% 15.2%
COPD 27 cases Too few cases 9.3% 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.

4 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after pneumonia 68 cases Too few cases 17.3% 17.3%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 39 cases Too few cases 11.4 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 91 cases Too few cases -14.5 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 274 cases No different 13 per 1,000 likely 9.5 per 1,000 – 17.5 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 46 cases No different 11.1 per 100 likely 7.7 per 100 – 15.7 per 100 10.7 per 100
ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 46 cases No different 5.2 per 100 likely 3.4 per 100 – 8.1 per 100 5.4 per 100
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 105 cases No different 1.2 likely 0.8 – 1.6 —

7 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

24 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
Occupational Therapist 6
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 4
Speech-Language Pathologist 4
Physical Therapist 3
Physical Therapy Assistant 3
Orthopedic 1
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 1
Physician Assistant 1
Registered Nurse 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 York General Health Care Services

Is York General Health Care Services a good hospital?

York General Health Care Services has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. Of the 12 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on 1. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.

Would patients recommend York General Health Care Services?

75% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 199 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the York General Health Care Services emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 6 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.