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Horn Memorial Hospital

701 E 2nd St, Ida Grove, IA 51445 · (712) 364-3311

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

Horn Memorial Hospital is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Ida Grove, Iowa (Ida County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.24 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Iowa hospital ($3.72).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$1.24listed for every $1 its care costs Iowa typical $3.72
1 h 40 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Pneumonia
21.7%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Pneumonia
16.8%

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

$81what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$2.2Mnet income, all sources
−15.6%margin on patient care alone
$6,940cost of charity care (0.0% of costs)
$326,734unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
117full-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.

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