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Wabash General Hospital 1

1418 College Drive, Mount Carmel, IL 62863 · (618) 262-8621

Rural (critical access) hospitalGovernment - Hospital District or AuthorityEmergency room

Wabash General Hospital 1 is a government-owned rural critical-access hospital in Mount Carmel, Illinois (Wabash County), with 25 beds. It has an emergency room. In CMS's patient survey it scores 4 of 5 stars, and 82% of patients said they would definitely recommend it. It lists $2.60 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Illinois hospital ($4.83).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
★★★★★patients' own rating (129 surveys)
$2.60listed for every $1 its care costs Illinois typical $4.83
1 h 52 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
25beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

★★★★★4 of 5 · 129 surveys

82%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
80%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

1 h 52 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
0%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%
83%of sepsis patients got the recommended care US typical 65%

ER volume: low.

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Heart failure
10.1%
Pneumonia
22.2%
COPD
11.6%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Heart failure
21.8%
Pneumonia
16.2%
Hip or knee replacement
6.4%
Infections and complications lower is better
Catheter urinary tract infections
0.00
≈ Same as US
C. diff intestinal infections
2.59
≈ Same as US
Complications after hip or knee replacement
4.0%

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

$38what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$16.7Mnet income, all sources
12.6%margin on patient care alone
$244,305cost of charity care (0.3% of costs)
$2.3Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
429full-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. 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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