Great Plains Health Heart Institute
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 Great'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 71%
- Communication with Doctors 76%
- Hospital Cleanliness 73%
- Hospital Quietness 61%
- Staff Responsiveness N/A
- Discharge Information 83%
- Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 61%
- Would Recommend Hospital 59%
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.
Psychiatric Unit Quality (IPFQR)
Great Plains Health Heart Institute operates a Medicare-certified inpatient psychiatric unit that reports under the federal IPFQR program. The measures are specific to that unit — not the hospital as a whole. They cover restraint and seclusion use, screening for medication side effects, substance-use and tobacco treatment, transitions of care, follow-up after discharge, and readmissions.
Show the psychiatric unit's 12 reported measures expand ↓
HBIPS-2 — hours of physical restraint use per 1,000 patient-hours. Lower is better; restraints carry physical and psychological risks.
HBIPS-3 — hours of seclusion per 1,000 patient-hours. Lower is better; seclusion is used only when no other intervention works.
SMD — % of patients on antipsychotics screened for metabolic side effects (BMI, blood glucose, cholesterol). Antipsychotics raise metabolic-syndrome risk; screening catches it early.
SUB-2 — % of patients with alcohol/drug use referred for treatment during admission.
SUB-3 — % of patients with substance-use disorder offered or referred to treatment at discharge.
TOB-3 — % of patients using tobacco who received counseling and/or medication at discharge.
TR-1 — % of discharges with a completed transition record including medications, follow-up plan, and crisis instructions.
FAPH-7 — % of patients with a follow-up outpatient mental-health visit within 7 days of discharge. Predicts lower readmission risk.
FAPH-30 — % of patients with a follow-up outpatient mental-health visit within 30 days of discharge.
MedCont — % of discharged patients with continued antipsychotic / antidepressant medication post-discharge.
READM-30-IPF — risk-standardized 30-day readmission rate. Better Than the National Rate
IMM-2 — % of patients given a flu vaccine during the inpatient stay.
Source: CMS Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting Program. Reporting period ending 12/31/2024.
Clinical Staff
Great Plains Health Heart Institute has 356 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 59
- Physician Assistant 54
- Family Practice 32
- Diagnostic Radiology 15
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna) 15
- Internal Medicine 13
- Pulmonary Disease 12
- Hematology/Oncology 12
Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.
Practice characteristics
- Accept Medicare assignment
- 354 (99%)
- Offer telehealth
- 105 (29%)
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)
55 of these clinicians have a published Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score. Of those, 11 (20%) 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 356 clinicians affiliated with Great Plains Health Heart Institute. 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.
- Michael L. Aaronson, MD Open PaymentsNephrology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Hospitalist✓ Medicare
- Clinical Psychologist✓ Medicare
- Infectious Disease📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Internal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Abel Alfonso, DO Open PaymentsEndocrinology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Christopher A. Alfonzo, MD Open PaymentsPsychiatry📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Hunter C. Allen, MD ProceduresFamily Practice✓ Medicare
- John L. Allen, MD Open PaymentsDiagnostic Radiology✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Snegha Ananth Open PaymentsHematology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (crna)✓ Medicare
- Taylor M. Anderson Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Diagnostic Radiology✓ Medicare
- Lakshman N. Arcot Jayagopal, MD Open PaymentsEpileptologists📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- General Surgery✓ Medicare
- Jason A. Arthur, MD Open PaymentsDiagnostic Radiology✓ Medicare
- Ronald L. Asher, MD Open PaymentsInternal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Benjamin Atchie, DO Open PaymentsInterventional Radiology✓ Medicare
- Hematology/oncology✓ Medicare
- Loretta L. Baca, MD Open PaymentsInternal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Pathology✓ Medicare
- Starrla R. Bartlett-Rone, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Kimberly A. Behnk Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Thoracic Surgery📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Obstetrics/gynecology✓ Medicare
- Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation✓ Medicare
- Jason J. Blomstedt, DO Open PaymentsFamily Practice✓ 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
- 116
- Facility type
- Acute Care Hospitals
- Ownership
- Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Emergency services
- Yes — 24/7
Ownership & Finances
- Ownership
- Nonprofit
- Charity care spend (FY2023)
- $5M
- List prices vs. actual cost
- ≈ 3.4× actual cost
From the hospital's FY2023 Medicare cost report (HCRIS).
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How Great Plains Health Heart Institute compares nearby
Compared with the 8 other acute-care hospitals within 100 miles — 9 facilities in all, CMS data only.
Among the 9 acute-care hospitals within 100 miles, CMS rates Great Plains Health Heart Institute'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mortality reported by 8 of 8 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average | Same as National Average |
The comparison group
- Gothenburg Health
- Callaway District Hospital
- Ogallala Community Hospital | Ogallala, NE | Spruce St.
- Cozad Community Hospital
- Perkins County Health Services
- Lexington Regional Health Center
- Chase County Community Hospital
- Community Hospital
Cohort: within 100 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.