Jennie M Melham Memorial Medical Center

145 Memorial Drive, Broken Bow, NE 68822 · (308) 872-4100

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

Jennie M Melham Memorial Medical Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Broken Bow, Nebraska (Custer County), with 23 beds. It has an emergency room and holds 4 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. It lists $1.36 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Nebraska hospital ($3.68).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating

$1.36listed for every $1 its care costs Nebraska typical $3.68

1 h 55 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

23beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

72%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%

77%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

Emergency room and urgent care

1 h 55 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min

0%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%

ER volume: low.

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Heart failure

12.3%

Pneumonia

18.6%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Pneumonia

16.9%

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

$74what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$2.9Mnet income, all sources

−1.5%margin on patient care alone

$36,818cost of charity care (0.2% of costs)

$359,821unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

91full-time staff (equivalent)

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