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Ohio County Hospital

1211 Old Main Street, Hartford, KY 42347 · (270) 298-7411

Rural (critical access) hospitalProprietaryEmergency room

Ohio County Hospital is a for-profit rural critical-access hospital in Hartford, Kentucky (Ohio County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room and holds 2 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. It lists $2.59 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Kentucky hospital ($4.88).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating
$2.59listed for every $1 its care costs Kentucky typical $4.88
1 h 47 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Heart failure
10.5%
Pneumonia
22.8%
COPD
9.0%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Heart failure
21.2%
Pneumonia
16.3%
Infections and complications lower is better
C. diff intestinal infections
0.85
≈ 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

$39what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$6.2Mnet income, all sources
1.3%margin on patient care alone
$144,781cost of charity care (0.2% of costs)
$5.1Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
620full-time staff (equivalent)

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

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

24 miles awayOwensboro Health Muhlenberg Community HospitalGreenville, KY★★★★★$2.96 listed per $1 of cost24 miles awayOwensboro Health Regional HospitalOwensboro, KY★★★★★$3.70 listed per $1 of cost33 miles awayBreckinridge Memorial HospitalHardinsburg, KY★★★★★$2.24 listed per $1 of cost34 miles awayBaptist Health Deaconess MadisonvilleMadisonville, KY★★★★★$8.41 listed per $1 of cost34 miles awayOwensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical CenterLeitchfield, KY★★★★★$3.98 listed per $1 of cost

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