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Johnson Memorial Hospital

1125 W Jefferson St, Franklin, IN 46131 · (317) 736-3300

General hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency room

Johnson Memorial Hospital is a government-owned general hospital in Franklin, Indiana (Johnson County), with 58 beds. It has an emergency room and holds 5 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. In CMS's patient survey it scores 4 of 5 stars, and 73% of patients said they would definitely recommend it. Medicare patients had 185 stays here in 2024, most often for respiratory failure, sepsis and heart failure. It lists $4.57 for every $1 its care costs, close to the typical Indiana hospital ($4.98).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating
★★★★★patients' own rating (343 surveys)
$4.57listed for every $1 its care costs Indiana typical $4.98
2 h 19 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
185Medicare stays in 2024
58beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

★★★★★4 of 5 · 343 surveys

73%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
70%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

  • Nurses communicated well★★★★★
  • Doctors communicated well★★★★★
  • Staff explained medicines★★★★★
  • Information for going home★★★★★
  • Room was clean★★★★★
  • Quiet at night★★★★★

Emergency room and urgent care

2 h 19 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
0%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%
85%of sepsis patients got the recommended care US typical 65%

ER volume: medium.

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Heart failure
12.2%
Pneumonia
17.0%
Stroke
14.1%
COPD
9.3%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Heart failure
21.5%
Pneumonia
16.4%
Infections and complications lower is better
C. diff intestinal infections
0.00
✓ Better than US
Serious complications (CMS safety index)
0.94
≈ Same as US

US typical hospital. Infection figures are a ratio: 1.00 means as many infections as expected for a hospital like this one. CMS adjusts these rates for how sick the patients are; a small gap from the typical hospital can be chance, so a verdict is shown only where CMS gives one.

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.

The money

$22what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$13.7Mnet income, all sources
−8.4%margin on patient care alone
$1.1Mcost of charity care (1.2% of costs)
$13.2Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
929full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 2024.

Hospital stays

Medicare figures are 2024 averages for this hospital; the bars show how much of the bill was actually paid.

Billed (list price)Actually paid (Medicare + patient)

StayMedicare staysBilledPaid
Respiratory failure 18946$30,695$9,449
Sepsis, with major complications 87141$48,481$13,256
Heart failure, with major complications 29140$29,110$9,136
Urinary tract infection 69019$32,926$6,044
Pneumonia, with major complications 19315$37,076$9,778
Urinary tract infection, with major complications 68913$37,247$8,052
Pneumonia, with complications 19411$30,323$6,582
Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. The hospital publishes them on its own price page.

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