Ngmc Barrow, LLC

• CMS’s overall star rating: what this means for it is 4 of 5.
• Of the measures behind its star rating: what this means, CMS counts against the national value: mortality, 0 better and 0 worse of 4; safety of care, 0 better and 0 worse of 2; readmission, 1 better and 0 worse of 5.
• Patients rate it 3 of 5 in CMS’s patient survey (157 surveys completed, Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025): 70% rated it 9 or 10 out of 10, and 68% would definitely recommend it.
• Infections, compared by CMS with the national benchmark (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025): C. diff infections, no different than national benchmark.
• CMS’s patient safety composite for serious complications, PSI 90, Jul 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2024: no different than the national value.
• Deaths within 30 days, as CMS gives them (Jul 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2025): heart failure 11%, pneumonia 13.9%, COPD 7.7%, stroke 9.4%. CMS gives no comparison with the national rate for them in this release.
• Readmissions within 30 days, as CMS gives them (Jul 1, 2023 to Jun 30, 2025): heart failure 21.4%, pneumonia 16.7%, COPD 18.9%. CMS gives no comparison with the national rate for them in this release.
• After outpatient care, compared by CMS: unplanned hospital visits after outpatient surgery, no different than expected.
• Emergency department patients spent a median of 134 minutes there before leaving (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025), and 1% left before being seen.
• 81% of patients with severe sepsis or septic shock got the care CMS measures, SEP-1 (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025).
• Medicare’s spending per patient here is 0.85 times the national median (Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024).

• Medicare-certified acute care hospital since Jul 1, 1966.
• Ownership: proprietary.
• It is accredited by The Joint Commission, whose surveys stand in for the state’s routine inspections.
• No inspection on record in the last three years to show whether it met Medicare’s rules for hospitals.
• Proprietary.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for hospitals.
• CMS cut its Medicare payments by 1% for fiscal year 2026 under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, which does so for the quarter of hospitals that fare worst on conditions patients get in hospital.
• No complaint investigation on record in the last three years.

• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for hospitals.
• In CMS’s patient survey, patients rate how well its nurses communicated 3 of 5.
• 94% of its health care workers got a flu shot (Oct 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025).

• Northeast Georgia Health System runs it.
• 23 owners or officers are people: Alexander A. Wayne (corporate director); Brian D Steines (corporate officer); Brian D Steines (corporate director); Cynthia Green (corporate director); Mohak Dave (corporate director); Glennis Barnes (corporate director); Phillippa Moss (corporate director); Deepak K Aggarwal (corporate director); Letrell Simpson (corporate director); Semuel Maysonet (corporate director); Greg Ours (corporate director); Brad Puryear (corporate director); William S Price (corporate director); Matthew L Hanley (corporate officer); Matthew L Hanley (corporate director); Mary L Coyle (corporate director); Kevin J Matson (corporate director); Richard K Whitehead (corporate director); Philip A Wilheit (corporate director); Jacquelyn L. Wallace (corporate director); Andrea D. Savage (managing employee (on the payroll), 0%); Pierpont F Brown (corporate director); John Kueven (corporate director).
• CMS’s Provider of Services file records 5 changes of ownership, the latest on Jan 1, 2017.
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• No other hospital CMS lists is in Barrow County.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for hospitals, so none are shown. The one payment cut CMS publishes for each hospital, under its Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, is shown where it applies.
• Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
• Most hospitals are accredited by a private organisation (The Joint Commission, DNV and others) whose routine inspections stand in for the state’s; those reports aren’t public, and QCOR holds only the state’s surveys: no inspection on record here doesn’t mean none took place.
• QCOR says its hospital inspection data are complete only through September 17, 2026, while it moves to a new system.
• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for hospitals.
• In its September 2026 release CMS gives no comparison with the national rate for death and readmission rates, though it gives the rates.

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information (xubh-q36u).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Patient survey (HCAHPS) - Hospital.

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Healthcare Associated Infections - Hospital (77hc-ibv8).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Complications and Deaths - Hospital (ynj2-r877).

  Released Sep 30, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Unplanned Hospital Visits - Hospital (632h-zaca).

  Released Sep 30, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Timely and Effective Care - Hospital (yv7e-xc69).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary - Hospital (rrqw-56er).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program (yq43-i98g).

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated yearly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider of Services File - Hospital & Non-Hospital Facilities (Hospital_and_other.DATA.Q3_2026.csv).

  Released Oct 14, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR Hospital 2567 statements of deficiencies (Hospital_2567s_2010_to_2026YTD.xlsx).

  Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital All Owners (Hospital_All_Owners_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Enrollments (Hospital_Enrollments_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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