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Peace Harbor Medical Center

400 9th Street, Florence, OR 97439

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

Peace Harbor Medical Center has a CMS overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. 81% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. On all 8 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 57 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 5/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 81% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 5/5 180 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 0 better of 8 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 180 completed surveys, 30% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
81%
OR 74% · US 71% · 5 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
83%
OR 73% · US 72% · 5 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
86%
OR 81% · US 80% · 5 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
86%
OR 81% · US 80% · 5 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
69%
OR 65% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
92%
OR 89% · US 86% · 5 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
85%
OR 75% · US 74% · 5 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
65%
OR 57% · US 60% · 5 of 5 stars

This hospital Oregon 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 OR US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 351 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 57 min 2 h 36 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 18 visits sampled 3 h 42 min 3 h 42 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 12,055 patients 1% 3% 2%
Stroke symptoms: brain scan read within 45 minutes Higher is better · 20 patients 45% 68% 69%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 51 patients 39% 60% 65%

How Peace Harbor 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
Peace Harbor Medical CenterThis hospital5/581%1 h 57 minNo different
Peacehealth Cottage Grove Community Medical CenterSame county · Cottage GroveNot rated82%2 h 3 minNo different
McKenzie-Willamette Medical CenterSame county · Springfield4/578%2 h 52 min1 better 2 worse
Sacred Heart Medical Center - RiverbendSame county · Springfield4/577%4 h 2 min6 better
Curry General HospitalSame ZIP area · Gold Beach2/584%1 h 53 min1 worse
Coquille Valley HospitalSame ZIP area · CoquilleNot rated84%1 h 59 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.

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 332 cases Too few cases 3.9% 3.9%
Heart failure 41 cases Too few cases 11% 11.1%
Pneumonia 43 cases Too few cases 12.5% 15.2%
Stroke 44 cases Too few cases 11.3% 11.9%

3 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 27 cases Too few cases 5.2% 4.1%

12 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.

Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after heart failure 72 cases Too few cases 20.9% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 66 cases Too few cases 18.1% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 32 cases Too few cases 20% 20%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 44 cases Too few cases -37 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 47 cases Too few cases 20.7 days per 100 —

9 more measures had too few cases here to report.

Clinicians registered at this address

34 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
Emergency Medicine 11
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 8
Internal Medicine 5
Clinical 1
Community Health Worker 1
Family 1
Hospitalist 1
Marriage & Family Therapist 1
Nurse Practitioner 1
Physician Assistant 1
Psychiatric/Mental Health 1
Psychiatry 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 Peace Harbor Medical Center

Is Peace Harbor Medical Center a good hospital?

Peace Harbor Medical Center has a CMS overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. On all 8 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 Peace Harbor Medical Center?

81% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 180 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Peace Harbor Medical Center emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 57 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.