Rural (critical access) hospitalGovernment - Hospital District or AuthorityEmergency room
Casey County Hospital is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Liberty, Kentucky (Casey County), with 24 beds. It has an emergency room and holds 3 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. It lists $0.95 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Kentucky hospital ($4.88).
$0.95listed for every $1 its care costs Kentucky typical $4.88
1 h 34 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
24beds
Quality and patient experience
What patients say
83%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
77%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%
Rated by patients
Emergency room and urgent care
1 h 34 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
Heart failure
10.8%
Pneumonia
16.6%
COPD
8.3%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Pneumonia
17.2%
Infections and complications lower is better
Catheter urinary tract infections
0.83
≈ Same as US
C. diff intestinal infections
0.00
≈ 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
$105what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$29.8Mnet income, all sources
42.3%margin on patient care alone
$234,997cost of charity care (0.7% of costs)
$717,605unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
187full-time staff (equivalent)
From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025.
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.