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Ferrell Hospital Community Foundations

1201 Pine Street, Eldorado, IL 62930 · (618) 273-3361

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

Ferrell Hospital Community Foundations is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Eldorado, Illinois (Saline County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room and holds 1 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. It lists $1.59 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Illinois hospital ($4.83).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating
$1.59listed for every $1 its care costs Illinois typical $4.83
25beds

Quality and patient experience

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Heart failure
11.9%
Pneumonia
22.6%
COPD
9.1%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Heart failure
21.5%
Pneumonia
18.3%
Infections and complications lower is better
Catheter urinary tract infections
0.99
≈ Same as US
C. diff intestinal infections
1.17
≈ 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

$63what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$6.4Mnet income, all sources
−35.2%margin on patient care alone
$765,371cost of charity care (1.1% of costs)
$2.2Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
255full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending March 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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