CMS certification 451378
Big Bend Regional Medical Center
2600 Highway 118 North, Alpine, TX 79830
CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Big Bend Regional Medical Center. 64% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. On all 5 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it is no different from the national rate. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 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.
What patients said
Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 102 completed surveys, 23% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
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 | TX | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 365 visits sampled | 2 h | 2 h 25 min | 2 h 42 min |
| Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 15 visits sampled | 2 h 34 min | 3 h 53 min | 4 h 17 min |
| Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 44 patients | 98% | 68% | 65% |
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 114 cases | Too few cases | 4% | 3.9% |
| Pneumonia 27 cases | Too few cases | 16.1% | 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.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Readmitted after pneumonia 38 cases | Too few cases | 17.5% | 17.3% |
| Days back in hospital after pneumonia 26 cases | Too few cases | -44.8 days per 100 | — |
| Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 98 cases | No different | 12.6 per 1,000 likely 9.3 per 1,000 – 17.3 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 Big Bend Regional Medical Center
Is Big Bend Regional Medical Center a good hospital?
CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Big Bend Regional Medical Center. On all 5 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 Big Bend Regional Medical Center?
64% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 102 completed HCAHPS surveys.
How long is the wait in the Big Bend Regional Medical Center emergency room?
Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 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.