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CMS certification 531307

Community Hospital

2000 Campbell Drive, Torrington, WY 82240

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services

Community Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars. 71% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 8 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on 1. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min).

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CMS overall rating 2/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 71% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 136 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 1 worse 1 better of 8 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 136 completed surveys, 32% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
71%
WY 72% · US 71% · 4 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
79%
WY 74% · US 72% · 4 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
84%
WY 82% · US 80% · 5 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
82%
WY 81% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
68%
WY 66% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
89%
WY 89% · US 86% · 4 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
74%
WY 76% · US 74% · 4 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
57%
WY 63% · US 60% · 4 of 5 stars

This hospital Wyoming 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 WY US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 363 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 3 min 2 h 2 h 11 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 12 visits sampled 3 h 5 min 3 h 4 min 4 h 17 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 4,953 patients 0% 1% 2%

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 165 cases Too few cases 4.3% 3.9%
Heart failure 66 cases Too few cases 14.4% 11.1%
Pneumonia 55 cases Too few cases 16.8% 15.2%

4 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.

2 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after heart failure 48 cases Too few cases 20.6% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 38 cases Too few cases 17.1% 17.3%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 66 cases Too few cases -31.6 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 51 cases Too few cases 44.1 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 109 cases No different 14 per 1,000 likely 10.4 per 1,000 – 19.1 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 44 cases No different 1 likely 0.7 – 1.5 —

8 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 Community Hospital

Is Community Hospital a good hospital?

Community Hospital has a CMS overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars. Of the 8 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 1 and worse on 1. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.

Would patients recommend Community Hospital?

71% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 136 completed HCAHPS surveys.

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

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 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.