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Cody Regional Health

707 Sheridan Avenue, Cody, WY 82414

Critical Access Hospitals Emergency services Birthing-friendly

Cody Regional Health has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. 68% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. On all 15 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 18 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 3/5 CMS summary of quality measures
Would definitely recommend 68% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 3/5 258 completed surveys
Compared with the nation 0 worse 0 better of 15 measures CMS could compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 258 completed surveys, 27% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
68%
WY 72% · US 71% · 3 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
67%
WY 74% · US 72% · 3 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
78%
WY 82% · US 80% · 3 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
84%
WY 81% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
66%
WY 66% · US 62% · 3 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
87%
WY 89% · US 86% · 3 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
75%
WY 76% · US 74% · 4 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
61%
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. 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 · 458 visits sampled 2 h 18 min 2 h 11 min 2 h 42 min
Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 19 visits sampled 2 h 36 min 3 h 4 min 4 h 17 min
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 41 patients 61% 63% 65%

How Cody Regional Health 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
Cody Regional HealthThis hospital3/568%2 h 18 minNo different
Powell Valley HospitalSame county · Powell4/579%1 h 23 min1 better 1 worse
Washakie Medical CenterSame ZIP area · Worland4/569%2 h1 better
North Big Horn Hospital DistrictSame ZIP area · Lovell4/588%58 min2 better
Hot Springs County Memorial HospitalSame ZIP area · Thermopolis3/574%2 h 28 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 390 cases Too few cases 3.6% 3.9%
Heart failure 78 cases Too few cases 13.8% 11.1%
Pneumonia 159 cases Too few cases 18.5% 15.2%
Stroke 30 cases Too few cases 12.8% 11.9%
COPD 34 cases Too few cases 8.2% 8.6%

2 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.

2 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Urinary tract infections from catheters (CAUTI) No different 0 1
C. diff intestinal infections No different 0.51 likely 0.03 – 2.53 1

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.

4 no different
Measure CMS comparison This hospital National
Readmitted after heart failure 76 cases Too few cases 21.5% 21.3%
Readmitted after pneumonia 115 cases Too few cases 16.9% 17.3%
Readmitted after COPD 32 cases Too few cases 20% 20%
Days back in hospital after heart failure 83 cases Too few cases 8.6 days per 100 —
Days back in hospital after pneumonia 163 cases Too few cases 9.7 days per 100 —
Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 323 cases No different 13.8 per 1,000 likely 10.1 per 1,000 – 18.5 per 1,000 13 per 1,000
Hospital admissions during outpatient chemotherapy 133 cases No different 11 per 100 likely 8.2 per 100 – 14.7 per 100 10.7 per 100
ER visits during outpatient chemotherapy 133 cases No different 5.5 per 100 likely 3.9 per 100 – 7.7 per 100 5.4 per 100
Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 77 cases No different 1 likely 0.7 – 1.4 —

5 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.

Clinicians registered at this address

56 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry. The same address can take in offices and clinics in the building, and a listing does not prove admitting privileges or current employment.

Specialty Clinicians
Emergency Medicine 6
Internal Medicine 5
Dietitian, Registered 4
Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) 3
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 3
Nurse Practitioner 3
Registered Nurse First Assistant 3
Anesthesiology 2
Clinical 2
Diagnostic Radiology 2
Emergency 2
Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic 2

First 12 alphabetically

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.

CMS Care Compare data retrieved 4 Oct 2026, refreshed weekly. Where this data comes from and how we handle it · Report an error

Common questions about Cody Regional Health

Is Cody Regional Health a good hospital?

Cody Regional Health has a CMS overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. On all 15 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 Cody Regional Health?

68% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 258 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the Cody Regional Health emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 18 min 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.