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Alleghany Memorial Hospital

233 Doctors Street, Sparta, NC 28675 · (336) 372-5511

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateEmergency room

Alleghany Memorial Hospital is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Sparta, North Carolina (Alleghany County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.51 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical North Carolina hospital ($4.44).

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$2.51listed for every $1 its care costs North Carolina typical $4.44
25beds

Quality and patient experience

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Pneumonia
14.8%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Pneumonia
16.8%

US typical hospital. Infection figures are a ratio: 1.00 means as many infections as expected for a hospital like this one. CMS adjusts these rates for how sick the patients are; a small gap from the typical hospital can be chance, so a verdict is shown only where CMS gives one.

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to June 2025.

The money

$40what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$40,449net income, all sources
−17.6%margin on patient care alone
$382,492cost of charity care (2.9% of costs)
$1.5Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
92full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending September 2024. Non-profit hospitals must have a financial assistance (charity care) policy; ask for it if a bill is hard to pay.

Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. Every US hospital must publish them; search the hospital's website for "price transparency" or "standard charges".

This hospital has no Medicare stay data for 2024. Medicare data covers mostly patients 65 and older, so psychiatric, children's and very small hospitals often don't appear.

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