Charles A. Cannon, Jr. Memorial Hospital
Part of University of North Carolina Health Care Systemsee all 41 affiliated facilities
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
Tracks hospital-acquired infections, surgical complications, and other patient safety indicators. Lower rates indicate better safety practices.
Readmissions
Measures how often patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Lower readmission rates suggest effective treatment and discharge planning.
Patient Experience
Based 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 Charles'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 89%
- Communication with Doctors 88%
- Hospital Cleanliness 86%
- Hospital Quietness 67%
- Staff Responsiveness N/A
- Discharge Information 86%
- Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 74%
- Would Recommend Hospital 79%
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
Charles A. Cannon, Jr. Memorial Hospital has 159 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 31
- Family Practice 25
- Physician Assistant 22
- Emergency Medicine 16
- Internal Medicine 11
- Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology) 7
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna) 6
- General Surgery 5
Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.
Practice characteristics
- Accept Medicare assignment
- 153 (96%)
- Offer telehealth
- 27 (17%)
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)
78 of these clinicians have a published Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score. Of those, 68 (87%) 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 159 clinicians affiliated with Charles A. Cannon, Jr. Memorial 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.
- Internal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Keith V. Atkinson, DO Open PaymentsCardiovascular Disease (cardiology)✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Joseph D. Barker, MD Open PaymentsInternal Medicine📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Anesthesiology✓ Medicare
- General Surgery✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Morgan H. Brinkman Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Christopher T. Bullers, MD Open PaymentsFamily Practice✓ Medicare
- Ashlee L. Capponi Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Kathy J. Castille Aliffi, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Daniel P. Cirino, DO Open PaymentsRheumatology✓ Medicare
- Keressa L. Clark, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Emily M. Cohea, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Chelsea L. Compitello Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Karen F. Criminger, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Shauna S. Critcher Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Jeffrey P. Crittenden, MD Open PaymentsNeurology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- General Surgery✓ Medicare
- Timothy P. Dailey, MD Open PaymentsFamily Practice📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Internal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Donna P. Denier, MD Open PaymentsCardiovascular Disease (cardiology)✓ 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
Facility Information
- Licensed beds
- 25
- Facility type
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership
- Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Emergency services
- Yes — 24/7
Ownership & Finances
- Ownership
- Nonprofit
- Charity care spend (FY2023)
- $109K
- List prices vs. actual cost
- ≈ 2.4× actual cost
From the hospital's FY2023 Medicare cost report (HCRIS).
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How Charles A. Cannon, Jr. Memorial 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, CMS rates Charles A. Cannon, Jr. Memorial Hospital's mortality about the same as the national average; the median among the 8 peers reporting it is about the same as the national average.
| Measure | This facility | Nearby median | Best nearby |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall star rating reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Not available | 3★ | 4★ |
| Patient experience (HCAHPS) star reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Not available | 3.5★ | 4★ |
| Mortality reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average | Same as National Average |
| Safety of Care reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Not available | Same as National Average | Same as National Average |
| Readmissions reported by 7 of 8 nearby peers | Not available | Same as National Average | Same as National Average |
The comparison group
- Watauga Medical Center
- Blue Ridge Regional Hospital
- Caldwell Memorial Hospital
- UNC Health Blue Ridge
- Sycamore Shoals Hospital
- Mission Hospital McDowell
- Johnson City Medical Center
- Franklin Woods Community 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.