Mt Ascutney Hospital

• 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; safety of care, 0 better and 0 worse of 1; readmission, 0 better and 0 worse of 3.
• Patients rate it 5 of 5 in CMS’s patient survey (140 surveys completed, Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025): 79% rated it 9 or 10 out of 10, and 84% 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.
• Deaths within 30 days, as CMS gives them (Jul 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2025): pneumonia 13%. 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 21.7%, pneumonia 16.4%. CMS gives no comparison with the national rate for them in this release.
• After outpatient care, compared by CMS: hospital admissions after outpatient chemotherapy, no different than the national rate; emergency visits after outpatient chemotherapy, no different than the national rate.

• Medicare-certified critical access hospital since Dec 1, 2001.
• Ownership: voluntary non-profit - private.
• 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.
• It has an inpatient rehabilitation unit of 10 beds, which CMS lists apart as a rehabilitation facility.
• Voluntary non-profit - Private.

• 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.
• In CMS’s patient survey, patients rate how well its nurses communicated 5 of 5.

• 25 owners or officers are people: Matthew S Houde (corporate director); Catharine Crawford (corporate director); John Gilman (corporate director, 0%); Jeffrey King (corporate director); Bryan Huot (corporate director); Matthew R Foster (corporate officer); John Tansey (corporate director, 0%); Steven Surgenor (corporate director); Lisa Richmond (corporate director); Juliann Barrett (corporate director); Tegan Deogburn (corporate director); Patricia Putnam (corporate director); Patricia Drew (managing employee (on the payroll)); Alan Keiller (corporate director); Samuel Shields (corporate director); Pam Brown (corporate director, 0%); Thomas Patrick Sullivan (corporate director); Deanna Howard (corporate director); Hannah Bianchi (corporate officer); William S Palmer (corporate director); Terri Decker (corporate director); Eric Crainich (corporate director); Carol Vivian (corporate director); Michael Fuerst (corporate director); Christopher Nesbitt (corporate director).
• CMS’s Provider of Services file records no change of ownership.
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• Of the 3 hospitals CMS lists in Windsor County, 1 has an overall star rating from CMS: 1 rated 5 of 5.
• 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 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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