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Sioux Center Health

1101 9th Street SE, Sioux Center, IA 51250 · (712) 722-1271

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

Sioux Center Health is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Sioux Center, Iowa (Sioux County), with 19 beds. It has an emergency room. In CMS's patient survey it scores 5 of 5 stars, and 83% of patients said they would definitely recommend it. It lists $1.88 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Iowa hospital ($3.72).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
★★★★★patients' own rating (119 surveys)
$1.88listed for every $1 its care costs Iowa typical $3.72
2 h 1 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
19beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

★★★★★5 of 5 · 119 surveys

83%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
85%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

  • Nurses communicated well★★★★★
  • Doctors communicated well★★★★★
  • Staff explained medicines★★★★★
  • Information for going home★★★★★
  • Room was clean★★★★★
  • Quiet at night★★★★★

Emergency room and urgent care

2 h 1 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
Pneumonia
16.5%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Heart failure
20.8%
Pneumonia
16.8%

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

$53what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$4.6Mnet income, all sources
−6.0%margin on patient care alone
$425,265cost of charity care (1.1% of costs)
$1.3Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
327full-time staff (equivalent)

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