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CMS certification 351307

St Andrew's Hospital

316 Ohmer Street, Bottineau, ND 58318

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for St Andrew's Hospital. 63% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 5 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 1 h 45 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 63% US average 71%
Patient survey rating Not rated 51 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 1 worse 0 better of 5 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 51 completed surveys, 43% 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
63%
ND 77% · US 71%
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
75%
ND 76% · US 72%
Nurses always communicated well
84%
ND 83% · US 80%
Doctors always communicated well
87%
ND 84% · US 80%
Staff always explained new medicines
65%
ND 67% · US 62%
Given information about recovering at home
85%
ND 87% · US 86%
Room was always clean
83%
ND 75% · US 74%
Always quiet at night
78%
ND 69% · US 60%

This hospital North Dakota 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 ND US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 211 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 45 min 1 h 50 min 2 h 42 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 2,026 patients 0% 3% 2%

How St Andrew's 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
St Andrew's HospitalThis hospitalNot rated63%1 h 45 min1 worse
P H S Indian Hosp at Belcourt-Quentin N BurdickSame ZIP area · Belcourt3/5——1 better
Towner County Medical CenterSame ZIP area · CandoNot rated97%1 h 8 minNo different
Chi St Alexius Health Devils LakeSame ZIP area · Devils Lake2/572%2 h 13 min1 worse
Smp Health St AloisiusSame ZIP area · Harvey1/576%1 h 16 min2 worse
Heart of America Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Rugby2/5—1 h 44 min1 worse

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 68 cases Too few cases 5.2% 3.9%
Pneumonia 59 cases Too few cases 17.9% 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.

1 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after pneumonia 48 cases Too few cases 18% 17.3%
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 56 cases Too few cases 86.3 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 120 cases No different 12.6 per 1,000 likely 9.2 per 1,000 – 17.1 per 1,000 13 per 1,000

11 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.

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 St Andrew's Hospital

Is St Andrew's Hospital a good hospital?

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for St Andrew's Hospital. Of the 5 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 St Andrew's Hospital?

63% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 51 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the St Andrew's Hospital emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 45 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.