Fulton County Health Center
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
Measures 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 Fulton'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 79%
- Communication with Doctors 83%
- Hospital Cleanliness 82%
- Hospital Quietness 49%
- Staff Responsiveness N/A
- Discharge Information 91%
- Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 74%
- Would Recommend Hospital 66%
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)
Fulton County Health Center 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 7 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.
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.
READM-30-IPF — risk-standardized 30-day readmission rate. No Different 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
Fulton County Health Center has 213 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 57
- Family Practice 30
- Emergency Medicine 13
- Physician Assistant 10
- General Surgery 8
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna) 8
- Orthopedic Surgery 8
- Rheumatology 7
Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.
Practice characteristics
- Accept Medicare assignment
- 212 (100%)
- Offer telehealth
- 33 (15%)
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)
40 of these clinicians have a published Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score. Of those, 21 (53%) 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 213 clinicians affiliated with Fulton County Health Center. 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.
- Vascular Surgery✓ Medicare
- Mohamed E. Abdel Khalek, MD Open PaymentsInternal Medicine✓ Medicare
- General Surgery✓ Medicare
- Nephrology✓ Medicare
- Aya E. Abugharbyeh, MD Open PaymentsRheumatology✓ Medicare
- Bradley J. Adams, DPM Open PaymentsPodiatry✓ Medicare
- Radiation Oncology✓ Medicare
- Melina F. Alexander, DO Open PaymentsEmergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Rebekah Altman, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Nezam I. Altorok, MD Open PaymentsRheumatology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Caitlin Armstrong Open PaymentsCertified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (crna)
- Nurse Practitioner📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Podiatry✓ Medicare
- Nathan Auch Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Carrianne M. Baden, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Urology✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Hayley L. Baldwin Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Ted E. Barber, MD Open PaymentsNeurology✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Nicholas T. Barnes, DO Open PaymentsFamily Practice✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Karen L. Bauer, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ 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 111 published procedures — gross charges, cash prices, and per-payer negotiated rates where available.
Median percent difference across the 109 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
- 35
- Facility type
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership
- Voluntary non-profit - Private
- Emergency services
- Yes — 24/7
Ownership & Finances
- Ownership
- Nonprofit
- Charity care spend (FY2023)
- $630K
From the hospital's FY2023 Medicare cost report (HCRIS).
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How Fulton County Health Center compares nearby
Compared with the 5 other acute-care hospitals within 25 miles — 6 facilities in all, CMS data only.
Among the 6 acute-care hospitals within 25 miles, Fulton County Health Center's overall star rating is 3★; the median among the 5 peers reporting it is 3★.
| Measure | This facility | Nearby median |
|---|---|---|
| Overall star rating reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | 3★ | 3★ |
| Patient experience (HCAHPS) star reported by 4 of 5 nearby peers | 4★ | 4.5★ |
| Mortality reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average |
| Safety of Care reported by 3 of 5 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average |
| Readmissions reported by 3 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | Same as National Average |
The comparison group
- Henry County Hospital, Inc
- Mercy Health - Defiance Hospital
- ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital
- Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers (Acute Care — Bryan)
- Promedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital
Cohort: within 25 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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Skilled nursing facilities nearby
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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.