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Centracare Health System - Melrose Hospital

525 West Main Street, Melrose, MN 56352 · (320) 256-4231

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateNo emergency room

Centracare Health System - Melrose Hospital is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Melrose, Minnesota (Stearns County), with 14 beds. It has no emergency room and holds 5 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. It lists $2.65 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Minnesota hospital ($2.99).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating
$2.65listed for every $1 its care costs Minnesota typical $2.99
2 h 21 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
14beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

82%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
80%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

    Emergency room and urgent care

    2 h 21 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
    0%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%
    31%of sepsis patients got the recommended care US typical 65%

    ER volume: low.

    Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
    Heart failure
    12.2%
    Pneumonia
    14.9%
    Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
    Heart failure
    21.4%
    Pneumonia
    15.9%
    Infections and complications lower is better
    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

    $38what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
    $7.5Mnet income, all sources
    12.1%margin on patient care alone
    $274,924cost of charity care (0.8% of costs)
    $604,115unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
    157full-time staff (equivalent)

    From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025. 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. 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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