Elbert Memorial Hospital

ELBERT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL is a critical-access hospital in Elberton, Georgia, running as a hospital-district public facility. The facility is Medicare-certified under CMS Certification Number 111337, which is the join key across Hospital Compare, MACRA, and most state discharge scorecards.

CMS has not assigned an overall Hospital Compare star rating to this facility — usually because the hospital reports too few of the measure groups to qualify, which is common for critical-access hospitals and specialty facilities. On measure groups versus the national rate, the facility is: 1 mortality measures reported with none flagged; 1 safety measures reported with none flagged; 3 readmission measures reported with none flagged. CMS's composite rating weights mortality, safety, readmission, patient experience, and timely & effective care across all reporting measures; it is not stratified by patient race.

Operationally: ELBERT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL does not report an emergency department or the CMS Birthing-Friendly maternal-safety designation in this release of Hospital Compare. Emergency admissions are routed to the nearest EMTALA-covered facility; maternal cases likely refer to the closest birthing-friendly hospital.

Statewide context: Grady Memorial is Georgia's largest safety-net hospital and anchors the Morehouse School of Medicine and Emory residency pipelines. Georgia has not adopted Medicaid expansion; hospital uncompensated-care burden falls heavily on Grady, Augusta University, and the rural critical-access network.