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Jamestown Regional Medical Center

2422 20th St SW, Jamestown, ND 58401

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

Jamestown Regional Medical Center has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. 80% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 13 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on none. Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 49 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 80% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 249 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 1 better of 13 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 249 completed surveys, 30% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
80%
ND 77% · US 71% · 5 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
81%
ND 76% · US 72% · 4 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
86%
ND 83% · US 80% · 5 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
85%
ND 84% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
68%
ND 67% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
90%
ND 87% · US 86% · 4 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
74%
ND 75% · US 74% · 4 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
73%
ND 69% · US 60% · 5 of 5 stars

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 · 571 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 49 min 1 h 50 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 34 visits sampled 2 h 30 min 2 h 44 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 6,353 patients 1% 3% 2%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 33 patients 82% 60% 65%

How Jamestown Regional Medical Center 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
Jamestown Regional Medical CenterThis hospital4/580%1 h 49 min1 better
Carrington Health CenterSame ZIP area · CarringtonNot rated92%1 h 44 minNo different
Cooperstown Medical CenterSame ZIP area · CooperstownNot rated77%2 h 1 minNo different
Chi Oakes HospitalSame ZIP area · OakesNot rated80%1 h 47 minNo different
South Central HealthSame ZIP area · WishekNot rated88%1 h 38 minNo different

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. All hospitals in Jamestown.

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 300 cases Too few cases 5.2% 3.9%
Heart failure 42 cases Too few cases 14.5% 11.1%
Pneumonia 56 cases Too few cases 15.7% 15.2%

4 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Complications

How often patients had serious complications, most of them after surgery, adjusted for how sick they were. Lower is better. Data from Jul 2022 – Jun 2024.

Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
After hip or knee replacement 72 cases Too few cases 4.2% 4.1%

12 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.

3 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after heart failure 65 cases Too few cases 20.3% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 74 cases Too few cases 17.3% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 28 cases Too few cases 19.3% 20%
Readmitted after hip or knee replacement 75 cases Too few cases 4.9% 5.8%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 48 cases Too few cases -43.5 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 59 cases Too few cases 0.4 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 533 cases No different 14.6 per 1,000 likely 11 per 1,000 – 19.4 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 71 cases No different 11.5 per 100 likely 8.1 per 100 – 16.3 per 100 10.7 per 100
ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 71 cases No different 5.5 per 100 likely 3.6 per 100 – 8.4 per 100 5.4 per 100

5 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Not reported for this hospital

CMS had too few cases here to publish results for 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

50 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
Physical Therapist 14
Dietitian, Registered 4
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 4
Occupational Therapist 4
Clinical Exercise Physiologist 3
Family 3
Speech-Language Pathologist 3
Athletic Trainer 2
Audiologist 2
Family Medicine 2
Foot & Ankle Surgery 2
Diagnostic Radiology 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 Jamestown Regional Medical Center

Is Jamestown Regional Medical Center a good hospital?

Jamestown Regional Medical Center has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. Of the 13 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 Jamestown Regional Medical Center?

80% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 249 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Jamestown Regional Medical Center emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 49 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. 1% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.