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CMS certification 451344

Hansford County Hospital

707 Roland St, Spearman, TX 79081

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Hansford County Hospital. Of the 3 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 32 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 No survey results published
Patient survey rating Not rated HCAHPS patient survey
Compared with the nation 1 worse 0 better of 3 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

The number of cases/patients is too few to report.

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 TX US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 276 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 32 min 2 h 25 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 11 visits sampled 2 h 12 min 3 h 53 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 1,726 patients 0% 1% 2%

How Hansford County 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
Hansford County HospitalThis hospitalNot rated—1 h 32 min1 worse
Covenant Hospital PlainviewSame ZIP area · Plainview4/571%2 h 36 minNo different
Ochiltree General HospitalSame ZIP area · PerrytonNot rated81%1 h 28 min1 better
Hereford Regional Medical CenterSame ZIP area · HerefordNot rated74%1 h 33 minNo different
Memorial HospitalSame ZIP area · DumasNot rated87%1 h 21 minNo different
Coon Memorial HospitalSame ZIP area · DalhartNot rated65%2 h 52 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
Pneumonia 26 cases Too few cases 16.7% 15.2%

6 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
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 30 cases Too few cases 49.4 days per 100 —

13 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 Hansford County Hospital

Is Hansford County Hospital a good hospital?

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Hansford County Hospital. Of the 3 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.

How long is the wait in the Hansford County Hospital emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 1 h 32 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.