Acute Care Hospitals / Government - Hospital District or Authority
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, Alabama
- Canonical ID
- cms-ccn:010019
- Address
- 1300 South Montgomery Avenue, 35660
- Emergency services
- Yes
- Telephone
- (256) 386-4556
Helen Keller Hospital is a government - hospital district or authority acute care hospital in Sheffield, Alabama. CMS gives it an overall rating of 2 out of 5, a rating shared with 17 other hospitals in Alabama. It reported 43 quality measures, performing better than the national rate on 2 and worse on 2.
Reported measures
Everything CMS publishes for this facility, with its national rank. A blank is a measure the facility did not report — it is shown as blank rather than filled in.
Overall rating
Measures reported
43
Measures better than national
2
Measures worse than national
2
| Measure | Value | National rank | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 2316th (tied 661) | of 5 | |
| Measures reported | 43 | 1386th (tied 117) | measures |
| Measures better than national | 2 | 961st (tied 628) | measures |
| Measures worse than national | 2 | 3347th (tied 603) | measures |
| Mortality measures better | 0 | 591st (tied 3,506) | measures |
| Safety measures better | 1 | 842nd (tied 1,010) | measures |
| Readmission measures better | 1 | 468th (tied 1,214) | measures |
How these measures are built
Overall rating
CMS collapses up to 46 measures into five groups, then into a single star. Two hospitals can share a rating with very different underlying profiles, so read the group counts below it before drawing a conclusion.
Measures reported
How many of the measures CMS tracks this facility actually reported. Low-volume hospitals report fewer, which is a reporting artefact rather than a quality signal — it is shown so a sparse profile is never mistaken for a poor one.
Measures better than national
Count of measures where this facility performed statistically better than the national rate. Compare against measures reported: 3 of 4 is not the same result as 3 of 40.
Measures worse than national
Count of measures where this facility performed statistically worse than the national rate.
Mortality measures better
Of the mortality measures reported, how many were better than the national rate. Risk-adjusted for how sick patients were on arrival.
Safety measures better
Of the safety-of-care measures reported (infections and complications), how many were better than the national rate.
Compared with hospitals in Alabama
99 hospitals in this state report to CMS. Peers below are selected by state and data completeness, not by whichever names happen to rank nearby.
- 1Baptist Medical Center South48 measures
- 2Baldwin Health46 measures
- 3Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital45 measures
- 4Baptist Medical Center East44 measures
- 5Helen Keller Hospital43 measures
- 6Athens Limestone Hospital43 measures
- 7Andalusia Health38 measures
- Overall rating−33.3%
- Measures reported+22.9%
- Measures better than national+100.0%
- Measures worse than national+100.0%
- Mortality measures better0.0%
Where this sits
Links out of this page are generated from the data, not hand-maintained.
Geographic context
Other hospitals in Colbert
Sources & licence
Every figure above traces to one of these releases. Nothing on this page is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Hospital General Information
- U.S. Census Bureau
- TIGERweb — State and County boundaries