William W Backus Hospital
Emergency & urgent care
How this emergency department performs on the measures that matter most when you need care fast.
From CMS Timely & Effective Care reporting.
Quality measures
Mortality
Same as National AverageMeasures the rate at which patients die within 30 days of hospital admission for specific conditions. A lower mortality rate indicates better outcomes.
Safety of Care
Same as National AverageTracks hospital-acquired infections, surgical complications, and other patient safety indicators. Lower rates indicate better safety practices.
Readmissions
Same as National AverageMeasures how often patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Lower readmission rates suggest effective treatment and discharge planning.
Patient Experience
Same as National AverageBased on the HCAHPS survey — patient satisfaction with communication, cleanliness, pain management, and discharge information.
Patient survey detail — the questions feeding the Patient Experience domain above expand ↓
CMS computes the Patient Experience domain from the federal HCAHPS survey. Each bar below is one survey question; the percentage is the share of William's recent patients who gave the most positive response. HCAHPS percentages aren't directly comparable across all measures — see the methodology page for how CMS weights them.
- Communication with Nurses 76%
- Communication with Doctors 77%
- Hospital Cleanliness 72%
- Hospital Quietness 37%
- Staff Responsiveness N/A
- Discharge Information 87%
- Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 60%
- Would Recommend Hospital 62%
Percentages represent patients who gave the most positive response. Survey conducted by CMS through the HCAHPS program.
Timely & Effective Care
Better than National AverageMeasures how quickly the hospital provides important treatments such as antibiotics for pneumonia or interventions for heart attacks.
Clinical Staff
William W Backus Hospital has 875 CMS-affiliated clinicians on its roster — physicians, advanced practice providers, and other Medicare-enrolled professionals who list this hospital as an affiliated facility.
Top specialties
- Nurse Practitioner 138
- Physician Assistant 134
- Internal Medicine 87
- Diagnostic Radiology 66
- Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology) 43
- Family Practice 35
- Emergency Medicine 29
- Neurology 27
Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.
Practice characteristics
- Accept Medicare assignment
- 852 (97%)
- Offer telehealth
- 282 (32%)
Bill Medicare directly at the approved rate — patients only owe co-insurance/deductible.
Indicated by the clinician in their CMS profile as routinely providing virtual visits.
Medicare quality scoring (MIPS)
499 of these clinicians have a published Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score. Of those, 254 (51%) score above the national median of 85.5.
MIPS scoring is heavily compressed at the top of the 0–100 range, so individual scores are not a reliable consumer signal. We surface roster-level coverage and the share above the national median instead.
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare) national downloadable file and MIPS Performance Year final scores, as of 2026-07-18. Affiliations from the CMS Facility Affiliations dataset. About 16% of small facilities (critical access, rural emergency, freestanding psych, IRF/LTCH) do not appear in the affiliations file and therefore have no panel.
Find a Doctor
Search the 875 clinicians affiliated with William W Backus Hospital. Each name links to that clinician's official Medicare Care Compare profile, where you can see their credentials, secondary specialties, group affiliations, and (when applicable) MIPS quality scores.
- Leah Aakjar, MD ProceduresGeneral Surgery✓ Medicare
- Gastroenterology✓ Medicare
- Celina L. Adams Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Neurosurgery✓ Medicare
- Anesthesiology✓ Medicare
- Kevin Aguila Guzman, CNA Open PaymentsCertified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (crna)✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- General Surgery✓ Medicare
- Fadi A. Al-Khayer, MD Open PaymentsInternal Medicine📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Gemstonn B. Alegre, MD Open PaymentsFamily Practice📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Todd J. Alekshun, MD Open PaymentsHematology/oncology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Gastroenterology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Naser Adeeb Aljundi, MD Open PaymentsInternal Medicine📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Family Practice📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine✓ Medicare
- David J. Altszuler, MD Open PaymentsCardiovascular Disease (cardiology)📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Cardiac Electrophysiology✓ Medicare
- Neurology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Jack J. Amja, MD Open PaymentsPulmonary Disease📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Helen Anaedo, MD Open PaymentsEndocrinology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Mental Health Counselor✓ Medicare
No clinicians match that search. Try a broader term like "internal medicine" or just a last name.
Roster from CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare), updated 2026-07-18. A clinician may also practice at other facilities; "affiliated" means this hospital is on their CMS profile, not that they exclusively work here. Procedure volumes are Medicare fee-for-service counts from the CMS clinician utilization file (all practice locations, not just this hospital). Industry payment totals are from CMS Open Payments, program year 2024, and include meals, travel, consulting, and speaking fees; payments are legal and common — we show them for transparency, not as a quality judgment.
Pricing & Costs
This hospital participates in price transparency under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. View 530 published procedures — gross charges, cash prices, and per-payer negotiated rates where available.
Median percent difference across the 530 DRGs where this hospital has a comparable published price and the comparison cohort has enough hospitals to compute a stable median.
Facility Information
- Licensed beds
- 213
- Facility type
- Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership
- Voluntary non-profit - Other
- Health system
- Hartford HealthCare
- NPI
- 1730243536
- Emergency services
- Yes — 24/7
Ownership & Finances
- Ownership
- Nonprofit
- Charity care spend (FY2023)
- $5.3M
- List prices vs. actual cost
- ≈ 3.4× actual cost
From the hospital's FY2023 Medicare cost report (HCRIS).
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How William W Backus Hospital compares nearby
Compared with the 8 other acute-care hospitals within 50 miles — 9 facilities in all, CMS data only.
Among the 9 acute-care hospitals within 50 miles, William W Backus Hospital's overall star rating is 4★; the median among the 8 peers reporting it is 3.5★.
| Measure | This facility | Nearby median | Best nearby |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall star rating reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | 4★ | 3.5★ | 4★ |
| Patient experience (HCAHPS) star reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | 3★ | 3★ | 4★ |
| Mortality reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average | Better than National Average |
| Safety of Care reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average | Better than National Average |
| Readmissions reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average | Better than National Average |
The comparison group
- Windham Community Memorial Hospital
- Lawrence + Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
- Westerly Hospital
- Day Kimball Hospital
- Manchester Memorial Hospital
- Middlesex Hospital
- South County Hospital
- Hartford Hospital
Cohort: within 50 miles · CMS data period 2026-06 · method cohort-v1 · comparisons are never affected by claiming or payment. How nearby comparisons work
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About this data
Quality and ratings data are sourced from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare program. Star ratings are CMS's own calculation; CareRanks does not modify or re-weight them. Facility-level details (address, beds, ownership, teaching status) come from CMS provider files and the CMS Provider of Services file.
Pricing data, where shown, is drawn from the hospital's own Machine-Readable File (MRF) published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. See our methodology for the full update cadence and limitations.