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Osf Saint Anthony's Health Center

St Anthony's Way, Alton, IL 62002 · (618) 465-2571

General hospitalVoluntary non-profit - ChurchNo emergency room

Osf Saint Anthony's Health Center is a non-profit general hospital in Alton, Illinois (Madison County), with 49 beds. It has no emergency room and holds 4 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. In CMS's patient survey it scores 4 of 5 stars, and 77% of patients said they would definitely recommend it. Medicare patients had 388 stays here in 2024, most often for sepsis, heart failure and pneumonia. It lists $5.13 for every $1 its care costs, close to the typical Illinois hospital ($4.83).

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating
★★★★★patients' own rating (314 surveys)
$5.13listed for every $1 its care costs Illinois typical $4.83
2 h 39 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
388Medicare stays in 2024
49beds

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

★★★★★4 of 5 · 314 surveys

77%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%
79%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 39 mintypical time in the ER before going home US typical 2 h 28 min
3%left the ER without being seen US typical 1%
69%of sepsis patients got the recommended care US typical 65%

ER volume: medium.

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better
Heart attack
11.9%
Heart failure
9.7%
Pneumonia
19.8%
Stroke
12.8%
COPD
11.3%
Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better
Heart attack
13.8%
Heart failure
21.0%
Pneumonia
16.9%
Infections and complications lower is better
C. diff intestinal infections
0.00
✓ Better than US
Serious complications (CMS safety index)
1.02
≈ 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

$19what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$8.2Mnet income, all sources
0.3%margin on patient care alone
$1.8Mcost of charity care (2.0% of costs)
$4.3Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
365full-time staff (equivalent)

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending September 2024. Non-profit hospitals must have a financial assistance (charity care) policy; ask for it if a bill is hard to pay.

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
Sepsis, with major complications 871111$43,882$14,470
Heart failure, with major complications 29148$29,901$10,307
Pneumonia, with major complications 19330$31,365$10,084
Lung infection, with major complications 17724$29,812$13,260
Sepsis 87224$31,678$7,667
Kidney failure, with major complications 68221$33,549$10,815
Respiratory failure 18919$28,192$9,023
Urinary tract infection 69017$19,901$6,201
COPD, with major complications 19016$22,770$8,362
Stomach and digestive disorders 39215$24,530$5,865
Kidney failure, with complications 68315$23,812$6,853
Infection needing surgery, with major complications 85313$121,051$38,479
Heart attack, with major complications 28012$40,204$10,314
Other kidney and urinary problems, with major complications 69812$26,587$12,926
Stomach or intestinal bleeding, with complications 37811$30,968$9,823
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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Distances are approximate: this hospital is placed by its ZIP code.