Breckinridge Memorial Hospital

1011 Old Highway 60, Hardinsburg, KY 40143 · (270) 756-7000

Rural (critical access) hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency room

Breckinridge Memorial Hospital is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Hardinsburg, Kentucky (Breckinridge County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room and holds 1 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. It lists $2.24 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Kentucky hospital ($4.88).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating

$2.24listed for every $1 its care costs Kentucky typical $4.88

1 h 40 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

25beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

78%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%

84%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

Emergency room and urgent care

1 h 40 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min

1%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%

ER volume: low.

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Pneumonia

19.0%

COPD

9.2%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Pneumonia

18.0%

Infections and complications lower is better

C. diff intestinal infections

0.96

≈ Same as US

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 September 2025.

The money

$45what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$2.6Mnet income, all sources

1.6%margin on patient care alone

$101,244cost of charity care (0.4% of costs)

$1.4Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)

176full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 2024.

Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. The hospital publishes them on its own price page.

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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