CMS overall star ratings,
VA hospitals in Wyoming
The Department of Veterans Affairs runs 2 hospitals in Wyoming that CMS lists. CMS rated 1 of them for .
For context, CMS rated 16 hospitals of every kind in Wyoming, VA included, from the same file.
- VA hospitals CMS lists
- 2
- Rated by CMS
- 1
- At 5 stars
- 1
- Moved since
- 0 up 0 down
Star ratings in Wyoming: VA hospitals and all hospitals
A chart of the figures in the table that follows.
| CMS stars | VA hospitals | All rated hospitals |
|---|---|---|
| 5 stars | 1 | 2 |
| 4 stars | 0 | 5 |
| 3 stars | 0 | 6 |
| 2 stars | 0 | 3 |
| 1 star | 0 | 0 |
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 Wyoming
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.
| CMS stars, to | to | to | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne VA Medical Center CheyenneState rank 1 | 5 of 5 |
| Same as 5 | 78% | Not available |
| Sheridan VA Medical Center Sheridan | Not rated |
| Not rated either year | 58% CMS footnote 10 | Not available |
- CMS footnote 10: Very few patients were eligible for the CAHPS survey. The scores shown reflect fewer than 50 completed surveys. Use these scores with caution, as the number of surveys may be too low to reliably assess facility performance.
Wyoming figures CMS publishes, for comparison
Each hospital page compares its numbers with these; CMS's footnotes are quoted under the table.
| Measure | Wyoming | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Would definitely recommend the hospital | 72% (footnote 21) | to |
| Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 74% (footnote 21) | to |
| Nurses always communicated well | 82% (footnote 21) | to |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving, excluding transferred and mental health patients | 131 minutes (footnotes 25, 26) | to |
| Left the emergency department before being seen | 1% (footnotes 25, 26) | to |
| Severe sepsis and septic shock care that met every step | 63% (footnotes 25, 26) | to |
| Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), ICU and select wards | 0.189 | to |
| Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), ICU and select wards | 0.474 | 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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