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Russell County Hospital

153 Dowell Road, Russell Springs, KY 42642 · (270) 866-4141

Rural (critical access) hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency room

Russell County Hospital is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Russell Springs, Kentucky (Russell County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.37 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Kentucky hospital ($4.88).

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$2.37listed for every $1 its care costs Kentucky typical $4.88
25beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

88%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
83%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

    Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
    Pneumonia
    16.3%
    Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
    Pneumonia
    16.7%

    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

    $42what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
    $6.2Mnet income, all sources
    0.0%margin on patient care alone
    $607,408cost of charity care (1.7% of costs)
    $2.9Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
    197full-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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