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Adams County Regional Medical Center

230 Medical Center Drive, Seaman, OH 45679

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

Adams County Regional Medical Center has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. 76% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. On all 10 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. Emergency patients spend a median of 3 h 9 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 3/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 76% US average 71%
Patient survey rating Not rated 49 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 0 better of 10 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 49 completed surveys, 23% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Very few patients were eligible for the CAHPS survey. The scores shown reflect fewer than 50 completed surveys. Use these scores with caution, as the number of surveys may be too low to reliably assess facility performance.
Would definitely recommend the hospital
76%
OH 71% · US 71%
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
80%
OH 73% · US 72%
Nurses always communicated well
80%
OH 81% · US 80%
Doctors always communicated well
82%
OH 79% · US 80%
Staff always explained new medicines
65%
OH 62% · US 62%
Given information about recovering at home
93%
OH 88% · US 86%
Room was always clean
82%
OH 74% · US 74%
Always quiet at night
60%
OH 57% · US 60%

This hospital Ohio 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 OH US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 420 visits sampled 3 h 9 min 2 h 38 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 13 visits sampled 4 h 24 min 4 h 8 min 4 h 17 min
Stroke symptoms: brain scan read within 45 minutes Higher is better · 18 patients 28% 71% 69%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 14 patients 21% 63% 65%

How Adams County 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
Adams County Regional Medical CenterThis hospital3/576%3 h 9 minNo different
Adena Pike Medical CenterSame ZIP area · WaverlyNot rated67%1 h 32 minNo different
Southern Ohio Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Portsmouth4/571%3 h 46 min1 better
Holzer Medical Center JacksonSame ZIP area · Jackson3/578%2 h 17 minNo different
Holzer Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Gallipolis4/568%2 h 19 min1 worse
Adena Regional Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Chillicothe3/554%3 h 19 min1 better 3 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 146 cases Too few cases 3.8% 3.9%
Heart failure 32 cases Too few cases 11.6% 11.1%
Pneumonia 82 cases Too few cases 14.8% 15.2%
COPD 29 cases Too few cases 7.8% 8.6%

3 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Infections caught in the hospital

Standardized infection ratio: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one. Lower is better. Data from Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

1 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
C. diff intestinal infections No different 0 1

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 heart failure 28 cases Too few cases 20.6% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 99 cases Too few cases 17.1% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 34 cases Too few cases 19.4% 20%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 34 cases Too few cases -41.8 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 95 cases Too few cases -17.2 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 70 cases No different 12.6 per 1,000 likely 9.4 per 1,000 – 16.9 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 30 cases No different 1 likely 0.7 – 1.4 —

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. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.

Clinicians registered at this address

19 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
Family 5
Physician Assistant 3
Family Medicine 2
Acute Care 1
Adult Health 1
Diagnostic Radiology 1
Dietitian, Registered 1
Emergency Medicine 1
Hospice and Palliative Medicine 1
Neurology 1
Orthopaedic Surgery 1
School 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 Adams County Regional Medical Center

Is Adams County Regional Medical Center a good hospital?

Adams County Regional Medical Center has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. On all 10 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 Adams County Regional Medical Center?

76% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 49 completed HCAHPS surveys.

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

Emergency patients spend a median of 3 h 9 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.