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Central Valley Medical Center - Cah

48 West 1500 North, Nephi, UT 84648

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Central Valley Medical Center - Cah. 83% 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 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 Not rated There are too few measures or measure groups reported to calculate a star rating or measure group score.
Would definitely recommend 83% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 116 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: 116 completed surveys, 20% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
83%
UT 77% · US 71% · 5 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
84%
UT 78% · US 72% · 5 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
83%
UT 81% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
87%
UT 82% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
65%
UT 63% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
95%
UT 89% · US 86% · 5 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
80%
UT 79% · US 74% · 4 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
61%
UT 62% · US 60% · 4 of 5 stars

This hospital Utah 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 UT US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 392 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 1 h 49 min 2 h 13 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 23 visits sampled 4 h 43 min 3 h 25 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 4,709 patients 0% 1% 2%

How Central Valley Medical Center - Cah 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
Central Valley Medical Center - CahThis hospitalNot rated83%1 h 49 minNo different
Intermountain Health Sanpete Valley HospitalSame ZIP area · Mount PleasantNot rated79%1 h 58 min1 better
Mountain View HospitalSame ZIP area · Payson5/573%1 h 57 min3 better
Intermountain Health Spanish Fork HospitalSame ZIP area · Spanish ForkNot rated80%2 h 32 min1 better
Gunnison Valley HospitalSame ZIP area · Gunnison3/594%2 h 2 min1 better
Intermountain Health Fillmore Community HospitalSame ZIP area · FillmoreNot rated80%1 h 51 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 176 cases Too few cases 4.5% 3.9%
Pneumonia 43 cases Too few cases 14.7% 15.2%

5 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 47 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.

1 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after pneumonia 52 cases Too few cases 16.8% 17.3%
Readmitted after hip or knee replacement 55 cases Too few cases 5.6% 5.8%
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 45 cases Too few cases -14.6 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 113 cases No different 13 per 1,000 likely 9.4 per 1,000 – 17.5 per 1,000 13 per 1,000

10 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.

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 Central Valley Medical Center - Cah

Is Central Valley Medical Center - Cah a good hospital?

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Central Valley Medical Center - Cah. 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 Central Valley Medical Center - Cah?

83% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 116 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Central Valley Medical Center - Cah 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. 0% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.