Skip to content

Veterans Crisis Line: Dial 988 then Press 1, or text 838255. In an emergency, call 911.

An independent publication, not affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs or CMS.

MedGuides

CMS data as of

Find a VA hospital

CMS overall star ratings,

VA hospitals in Indiana

The Department of Veterans Affairs runs 2 hospitals in Indiana that CMS lists. CMS rated 2 of them for .

For context, CMS rated 91 hospitals of every kind in Indiana, VA included, from the same file.

VA hospitals CMS lists
2
Rated by CMS
2
At 5 stars
1
Moved since
0 up 1 down

Star ratings in Indiana: VA hospitals and all hospitals

A chart of the figures in the table that follows.

Star ratings in Indiana: the number of VA hospitals and of all rated hospitals at each CMS star level
CMS starsVA hospitalsAll rated hospitals
5 stars112
4 stars028
3 stars134
2 stars015
1 star02

Source: CMS Hospital General Information (dataset xubh-q36u), released .

A star is CMS's summary of up to five groups of measures, not a ranking of every hospital against every other. How the star rating works.

Every VA hospital in Indiana

Ordered by CMS star rating, then by name; hospitals with the same rating share a rank. Select a column heading to sort. How ranks are set.

VA hospitals in IndianaER median is CMS measure OP-18b, which leaves out patients transferred to another facility and mental health patients. CMS measurement periods: Would definitely recommend, to ; ER median, to .Each row's four small tiles are its CMS stars for , , and .
CMS stars, to to to
VA Northern Indiana Healthcare System MarionState rank 15 of 5
  1. : not rated
  2. : not rated
  3. : 5 stars
  4. : 5 stars
Same as 574%Not available
Indianapolis VA Medical Center IndianapolisState rank 23 of 5
  1. : 5 stars
  2. : 5 stars
  3. : 5 stars
  4. : 3 stars
Down from 570%154 medium-volume ED

Indiana figures CMS publishes, for comparison

Each hospital page compares its numbers with these; CMS's footnotes are quoted under the table.

Indiana figures CMS publishes for comparison with its VA hospitals
MeasureIndianaPeriod
Would definitely recommend the hospital71% (footnote 21) to
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 1073% (footnote 21) to
Nurses always communicated well80% (footnote 21) to
Median time in the emergency department before leaving, excluding transferred and mental health patients145 minutes (footnotes 25, 26) to
Left the emergency department before being seen2% (footnotes 25, 26) to
Severe sepsis and septic shock care that met every step60% (footnotes 25, 26) to
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), ICU and select wards0.526 to
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), ICU and select wards0.475 to
  • CMS footnote 21: Patient survey results for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals do not represent official HCAHPS results and are not included in state and national averages.
  • CMS footnote 25: State and national averages include Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospital data.
  • CMS footnote 26: State and national averages include Department of Defense (DoD) hospital data.

Get the next CMS update

One email when CMS releases new VA hospital data, about four a year. Nothing else, ever.