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CMS certification 521350

Langlade Hospital

112 E Fifth Ave, Antigo, WI 54409

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for Langlade Hospital. 75% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 28 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 Results are not available for this reporting period.
Would definitely recommend 75% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 3/5 155 completed surveys
Compared with the nation Too few cases for CMS to compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 155 completed surveys, 19% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
75%
WI 75% · US 71% · 4 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
75%
WI 76% · US 72% · 4 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
77%
WI 83% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
77%
WI 82% · US 80% · 3 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
56%
WI 66% · US 62% · 2 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
86%
WI 89% · US 86% · 3 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
75%
WI 78% · US 74% · 4 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
67%
WI 65% · US 60% · 4 of 5 stars

This hospital Wisconsin 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 WI US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 361 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 2 h 28 min 2 h 17 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 14 visits sampled 3 h 8 min 3 h 23 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 11,671 patients 2% 2% 2%
Stroke symptoms: brain scan read within 45 minutes Higher is better · 11 patients 64% 74% 69%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 150 patients 81% 72% 65%

How Langlade 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
Langlade HospitalThis hospitalNot rated75%2 h 28 min—
Aspirus Wausau HospitalSame ZIP area · Wausau4/575%2 h 37 min4 better
Marshfield Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Marshfield1/560%2 h 46 min1 better 5 worse
Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics, INCSame ZIP area · MedfordNot rated76%2 h 34 minNo different
Aspirus Merrill HospitalSame ZIP area · MerrillNot rated62%2 h 3 min—
Marshfield Medical Center - NeillsvilleSame ZIP area · NeillsvilleNot rated76%1 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
All patients, hospital-wide 392 cases Too few cases 3.9% 3.9%
Heart failure 51 cases Too few cases 14.3% 11.1%
Pneumonia 87 cases Too few cases 18.5% 15.2%
Stroke 31 cases Too few cases 13.1% 11.9%

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 0.87 likely 0.15 – 2.89 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.

3 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after heart failure 89 cases Too few cases 20.2% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 154 cases Too few cases 17.2% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 44 cases Too few cases 20.2% 20%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 55 cases Too few cases 27.6 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 88 cases Too few cases 0.2 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 68 cases No different 12.7 per 1,000 likely 9.4 per 1,000 – 17.2 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 50 cases No different 11.6 per 100 likely 8.2 per 100 – 16.2 per 100 10.7 per 100
ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 50 cases No different 6.1 per 100 likely 4 per 100 – 9.3 per 100 5.4 per 100

6 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.

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 Langlade Hospital

Would patients recommend Langlade Hospital?

75% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 155 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Langlade Hospital emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 28 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. 2% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.