Acute Care - Veterans Administration / Veterans Health Administration
Va Central Iowa Healthcare System
Des Moines, Iowa
- Canonical ID
- cms-ccn:16003F
- Address
- 3600 30th Street, 50310
- Emergency services
- Yes
- Telephone
- (515) 699-5999
Va Central Iowa Healthcare System is a veterans health administration acute care - veterans administration in Des Moines, Iowa. CMS gives it an overall rating of 4 out of 5, a rating shared with 20 other hospitals in Iowa. It reported 25 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
25
Measures better than national
2
Measures worse than national
2
| Measure | Value | National rank | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 385th (tied 946) | of 5 | |
| Measures reported | 25 | 2880th (tied 76) | 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 | 0 | 1852nd (tied 1,493) | measures |
| Readmission measures better | 2 | 133rd (tied 335) | 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 Iowa
118 hospitals in this state report to CMS. Peers below are selected by state and data completeness, not by whichever names happen to rank nearby.
- 1Allen Hospital49 measures
- 2Finley Hospital43 measures
- 3Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs39 measures
- 4Cass County Memorial Hospital35 measures
- 5Broadlawns Medical Center33 measures
- 6Va Central Iowa Healthcare System25 measures
- 7Buena Vista Regional Medical Center25 measures
- Overall rating+33.3%
- Measures reported+47.1%
- Measures better than national0.0%
- Measures worse than national0.0%
- 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 Polk
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