Quality Improvement

Quality and Safety

Bates County Memorial Hospital is committed to continuously improving the health of the people of our community. Our improvement efforts include measuring and comparing processes and outcomes to increase efficiency, timeliness, effectiveness as well as to improve patient safety and satisfaction.

The hospital participates in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality measure reporting program. This program allows us to improve quality through the comparison of our performance data with other hospitals nationwide.

Bates County Memorial Hospital is committed to being open and honest with patients and families. In an effort to be transparent, we publicly share our performance data.  Patient and families are encouraged to view our data at http://medicare.gov/hospitalcompare.