Eastern Rio Blanco County Health Service District

100 Pioneers Medical Center Dr, Meeker, CO 81641 · (970) 878-5047

Rural (critical access) hospitalGovernment - Hospital District or AuthorityEmergency room

Eastern Rio Blanco County Health Service District is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Meeker, Colorado (Rio Blanco County), with 16 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.68 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Colorado hospital ($6.22).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$1.68listed for every $1 its care costs Colorado typical $6.22

3 h 28 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

16beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

87%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%

66%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

Emergency room and urgent care

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

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Pneumonia

16.9%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Hip or knee replacement

5.7%

Infections and complications lower is better

Complications after hip or knee replacement

3.1%

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

$60what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$2.1Mnet income, all sources

−14.9%margin on patient care alone

$78,719cost of charity care (0.1% of costs)

$398,844unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

181full-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.

Nearby hospitals

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