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Cumberland County Hospital

299 Glasgow Road, Burkesville, KY 42717 · (270) 864-2511

Rural (critical access) hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency room

Cumberland County Hospital is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Burkesville, Kentucky (Cumberland County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.31 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Kentucky hospital ($4.88).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$1.31listed for every $1 its care costs Kentucky typical $4.88
1 h 33 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Pneumonia
18.0%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Pneumonia
16.6%

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

$77what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$615,381net income, all sources
−17.7%margin on patient care alone
$54,541cost of charity care (0.3% of costs)
$704,817unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
153full-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. 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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