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Pipestone County Medical Center

916 4th Avenue Southwest, Pipestone, MN 56164 · (507) 825-5811

Rural (critical access) hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency room

Pipestone County Medical Center is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Pipestone, Minnesota (Pipestone County), with 18 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.78 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Minnesota hospital ($2.99).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$1.78listed for every $1 its care costs Minnesota typical $2.99
2 h 12 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
18beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

80%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
85%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

    Emergency room and urgent care

    2 h 12 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
    Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
    Pneumonia
    17.1%

    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

    $56what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
    $2.7Mnet income, all sources
    −8.4%margin on patient care alone
    $101,206cost of charity care (0.3% of costs)
    $227,088unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
    143full-time staff (equivalent)

    From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025.

    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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