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Wagner Community Memorial Hospital - Cah

513 3rd St SW, Wagner, SD 57380 · (605) 384-3611

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

Wagner Community Memorial Hospital - Cah is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Wagner, South Dakota (Charles Mix County), with 15 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $2.62 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical South Dakota hospital ($4.09).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$2.62listed for every $1 its care costs South Dakota typical $4.09
1 h 54 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
15beds

Quality and patient experience

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.

The money

$38what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$3.7Mnet income, all sources
5.7%margin on patient care alone
$390,574cost of charity care (2.3% of costs)
$1.1Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
122full-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.

Nearby hospitals

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