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Family Health West Hospital

300 W Ottley Ave, Fruita, CO 81521 · (970) 858-9871

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

Family Health West Hospital is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Fruita, Colorado (Mesa County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.65 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Colorado hospital ($6.22).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$2.65listed for every $1 its care costs Colorado typical $6.22
48 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

88%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
75%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

    Emergency room and urgent care

    48 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
    Infections and complications lower is better
    C. diff intestinal infections
    0.49
    ≈ 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
    $2.4Mnet income, all sources
    −4.1%margin on patient care alone
    $203,857cost of charity care (0.4% of costs)
    $2.5Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
    385full-time staff (equivalent)

    From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 2024. 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.

    Nearby hospitals

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