Is the Harlan County Health System ER faster than average?

It is faster than 90% of the 4,081 US ERs that report this number. The US median is 2 hours 28 minutes.

1h 39mmedian time
in this ER

Harlan County Health System ER wait time

Emergency room · Alma, NE

Faster than 90% of US ERs · #373 of 4,081

Directions Call NE ranking

49m faster than the US median

This ERNE 1h 54mUS 2h 28m

Left before being seen0%

ER visits a year1,000

717 Brown St, Alma, NE 68920

(308) 928-2151

Patients sent home from the emergency room at Harlan County Health System in Alma, Nebraska spend a median of 1 hour 39 minutes there, from arrival to leaving. That's 49 minutes less than the national median of 2 hours 28 minutes, and faster than the Nebraska median of 1 hour 54 minutes. 0% of patients left before being seen.

ERs near Alma

Phelps Memorial Health CenterHoldrege, NE · 19 miFaster than 96% of US ERs1h 27min the ER Franklin County Memorial HospitalFranklin, NE · 20 miFaster than 97% of US ERs1h 21min the ER Phillips County HospitalPhillipsburg, KS · 23 miFaster than 77% of US ERs1h 56min the ER Kearney County Health Services HospitalMinden, NE · 32 miFaster than 69% of US ERs2h 05min the ER Smith County Memorial HospitalSmith Center, KS · 37 miFaster than 85% of US ERs1h 47min the ER Norton County HospitalNorton, KS · 39 miFaster than 76% of US ERs1h 57min the ER Kearney Regional Medical CenterKearney, NE · 40 miFaster than 83% of US ERs1h 49min the ER Webster County Community HospitalRed Cloud, NE · 43 miFaster than 95% of US ERs1h 29min the ER

Questions

How long is the wait at the Harlan County Health System ER?

The median patient who is sent home spends 1 hour 39 minutes in the ER, from arrival to departure (CMS, Oct 2024 to Sep 2025). Half of patients spend longer.

Is that a long wait?

It's shorter than the US median of 2 hours 28 minutes. It's faster than 90% of the 4,081 US ERs that report this number.

Where does this data come from?

From CMS Care Compare, measure OP-18b. How this works.

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