Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital
286 16th St, Burlington, CO 80807 · (719) 346-4824
Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Burlington, Colorado (Kit Carson County), with 19 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.62 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Colorado hospital ($6.22).
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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$1.62listed for every $1 its care costs Colorado typical $6.22
1 h 55 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
19beds
Quality and patient experience
What patients say
72%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
79%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.
Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.
The money
$62what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$3.4Mnet income, all sources
−0.1%margin on patient care alone
$210,870cost of charity care (1.0% of costs)
$3.6Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
92full-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. Every US hospital must publish them; search the hospital's website for "price transparency" or "standard charges".
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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