Charles a Cannon Jr Memorial Hospital

434 Hospital Drive, Linville, NC 28646 · (828) 737-7000

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

Charles a Cannon Jr Memorial Hospital is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Linville, North Carolina (Avery County), with 23 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.84 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical North Carolina hospital ($4.44).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$2.84listed for every $1 its care costs North Carolina typical $4.44

1 h 52 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

23beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

80%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%

79%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

Emergency room and urgent care

1 h 52 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min

0%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%

ER volume: low.

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Heart failure

9.7%

Pneumonia

13.8%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Heart failure

21.6%

Pneumonia

17.4%

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

$35what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$4.8Mnet income, all sources

5.4%margin on patient care alone

$662,767cost of charity care (3.0% of costs)

$2.5Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)

126full-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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