CMS certification 321305

Nor-Lea Hospital District

1600 North Main Ave, Lovington, NM 88260

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Nor-Lea Hospital District. 85% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 7 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on none.

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 85% US average 71%

Patient survey rating Not rated 78 completed surveys

Compared with the nation 0 worse 1 better of 7 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 78 completed surveys, 17% 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

85%

NM 66% · US 71%

Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10

87%

NM 69% · US 72%

Nurses always communicated well

89%

NM 78% · US 80%

Doctors always communicated well

86%

NM 78% · US 80%

Staff always explained new medicines

76%

NM 62% · US 62%

Given information about recovering at home

88%

NM 83% · US 86%

Room was always clean

88%

NM 72% · US 74%

Always quiet at night

73%

NM 60% · US 60%

This hospital New Mexico 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	NM	US
Left before being seen Lower is better · 12,193 patients	1%	3%	2%

How Nor-Lea Hospital District 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
Nor-Lea Hospital DistrictThis hospital	Not rated	85%	—	1 better
Covenant Health Hobbs HospitalSame county · Hobbs	3/5	72%	2 h 50 min	No different
Carlsbad Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Carlsbad	1/5	42%	3 h 12 min	1 worse
Artesia General HospitalSame ZIP area · Artesia	Not rated	82%	1 h 39 min	No different
Eastern New Mexico Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Roswell	1/5	53%	3 h 8 min	1 better 2 worse
Lovelace Regional Hospital - RoswellSame ZIP area · Roswell	2/5	67%	2 h 10 min	1 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 119 cases	Too few cases	3.6%	3.9%
Pneumonia 42 cases	Too few cases	12.7%	15.2%

5 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 pneumonia 42 cases	Too few cases	16.3%	17.3%
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 56 cases	Too few cases	-65.3 days per 100	—
Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 48 cases	No different	10.7 per 100 likely 7.5 per 100 – 14.9 per 100	10.7 per 100
ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 48 cases	No different	5.4 per 100 likely 3.4 per 100 – 8.1 per 100	5.4 per 100

10 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

114 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry, plus 4 residents and trainees. 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
Family Medicine	16
Family	15
Physical Therapist	8
Physician Assistant	8
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered	7
Professional	5
Clinical	4
Mental Health	4
Social Worker	4
Community Health Worker	3
Dietitian, Registered	3
Internal Medicine	3

First 12 alphabetically

Adaugo Juliet Opiegbe, MBBS Pediatrics Adilene Nunez Clinical Adrian D Velasquez Social Worker Alex Marvin Charles Saldana Family Medicine Alyssa Laxina Albano Physical Therapist Amanda Delacruz, LCSW Clinical Amrit Bhushan Varma, MD Otolaryngology Amy D South, LMHC Mental Health Angela Tharnish, APRNBC Acute Care Angelica Hinson Community Health Worker Angelica Snyder, LCSW Clinical Anibal Marquez-Chavez Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered

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 Nor-Lea Hospital District

Is Nor-Lea Hospital District a good hospital?

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Nor-Lea Hospital District. Of the 7 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on none. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.

Would patients recommend Nor-Lea Hospital District?

85% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 78 completed HCAHPS surveys.

Does Nor-Lea Hospital District have an emergency room?

Yes. CMS lists emergency services at Nor-Lea Hospital District.