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VA hospitals in Missouri

The Department of Veterans Affairs runs 4 hospitals in Missouri that CMS lists. CMS rated 3 of them for .

For context, CMS rated 79 hospitals of every kind in Missouri, VA included, from the same file.

VA hospitals CMS lists
4
Rated by CMS
3
At 5 stars
1
Moved since
0 up 1 down

Star ratings in Missouri: VA hospitals and all hospitals

A chart of the figures in the table that follows.

Star ratings in Missouri: the number of VA hospitals and of all rated hospitals at each CMS star level
CMS starsVA hospitalsAll rated hospitals
5 stars15
4 stars228
3 stars022
2 stars021
1 star03

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 Missouri

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 MissouriER 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
St. Louis-John Cochran VA Medical Center St. LouisState rank 15 of 5
  1. : 4 stars
  2. : 5 stars
  3. : 5 stars
  4. : 5 stars
Same as 564%Not available
Columbia VA Medical Center (Missouri) ColumbiaState rank 2, tied with 1 other4 of 5
  1. : 3 stars
  2. : 2 stars
  3. : 4 stars
  4. : 4 stars
Same as 486%Not available
Kansas City VA Medical Center Kansas CityState rank 2, tied with 1 other4 of 5
  1. : 4 stars
  2. : 5 stars
  3. : 5 stars
  4. : 4 stars
Down from 569%Not available
Poplar Bluff VA Medical Center Poplar BluffNot rated
  1. : not rated
  2. : 5 stars
  3. : not rated
  4. : not rated
Not rated either year75% CMS footnote 6Not available
  • CMS footnote 6: Fewer than 100 patients completed the CAHPS survey. Use these scores with caution, as the number of surveys may be too low to reliably assess facility performance.

Missouri figures CMS publishes, for comparison

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

Missouri figures CMS publishes for comparison with its VA hospitals
MeasureMissouriPeriod
Would definitely recommend the hospital71% (footnote 21) to
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 1072% (footnote 21) to
Nurses always communicated well79% (footnote 21) to
Median time in the emergency department before leaving, excluding transferred and mental health patients155 minutes (footnotes 25, 26) to
Left the emergency department before being seen3% (footnotes 25, 26) to
Severe sepsis and septic shock care that met every step63% (footnotes 25, 26) to
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), ICU and select wards0.632 to
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), ICU and select wards0.502 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.

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