South Central Health

• CMS gives no overall star rating: what this means: “There are too few measures or measure groups reported to calculate a star rating or measure group score.”
• Of the measures behind its star rating: what this means, CMS counts against the national value: mortality, 0 better and 0 worse of 2; readmission, 0 better and 0 worse of 2.
• CMS gives no patient survey rating: what this means: “The number of cases/patients is too few to report a star rating.”
• In CMS’s patient survey (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025): 89% rated it 9 or 10 out of 10, and 88% would definitely recommend it.
• Deaths within 30 days, as CMS gives them (Jul 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2025): pneumonia 15.4%. 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): pneumonia 16.6%. CMS gives no comparison with the national rate for them in this release.
• Emergency department patients spent a median of 98 minutes there before leaving (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025), and 0% left before being seen.

• Medicare-certified critical access hospital since Nov 1, 2001.
• Ownership: government - local.
• It is not accredited by a private organisation, so the state carries out its routine inspections for Medicare.
• No inspection on record in the last three years to show whether it met Medicare’s rules for hospitals.
• Government - Local.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for hospitals.
• CMS’s HAC Reduction Program file has no result for it: the program covers general acute care hospitals Medicare pays under its inpatient prospective payment system.
• No complaint investigation on record in the last three years.

• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for hospitals.
• 49% of its health care workers got a flu shot (Oct 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025).

• Wishek Hospital-Clinic Association runs it.
• 34 owners or officers are people: Megan Rath (corporate officer); Megan Rath (corporate director); Megan Rath (managing employee (on the payroll)); Lee B Aipperspach (corporate director); John Kosiak (managing employee (on the payroll)); Taisha Volk (managing employee (on the payroll)); Lukas Fischer (managing employee (under contract)); Lukas Fischer (corporate officer); Lukas Fischer (corporate director); Lukas Fischer (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Stacy Wiest (managing employee (on the payroll)); Carly Sanders (managing employee (on the payroll)); Lila Raile (corporate officer); Lila Raile (corporate director); Kari Buchholz (managing employee (on the payroll)); Kari Buchholz (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Tanya Schnabel (corporate director); Nathan Wolf (corporate officer); Nathan Wolf (corporate director); Donald Hochhalter (corporate director); Sheila Brosy (corporate director); Valerie Rohweder (managing employee (on the payroll)); Valerie Rohweder (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Valerie Rohweder (other role (CMS gives no detail)); Rochelle Glaesman (managing employee (on the payroll)); Lisa Weigel (corporate director); Rebecca Schnabel (corporate officer); Rebecca Schnabel (corporate director); Josephine Vilhauer (managing employee (on the payroll)); Jeremy Rohr (managing employee (on the payroll)); Kelly Brown (corporate officer); Kelly Brown (managing employee (on the payroll)); Marla Berntson (corporate director); Josey Huber (managing employee (on the payroll)).
• CMS’s Provider of Services file records 2 changes of ownership.
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• Of the 2 hospitals CMS lists in McIntosh County, none has an overall star rating from CMS.
• CMS gives this hospital no overall star rating to compare.

• 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 Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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

  Released Aug 13, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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.Q2_2026.csv).

  Released Jul 15, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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