Quick answers
- Does Marion General Hospital have an emergency room?
- Yes. Medicare (CMS) data lists emergency services at Marion General Hospital. In a medical emergency, call 911.
- Where is Marion General Hospital?
- 1560 Sumrall Rd, Columbia, MS 39429, in Marion County, Mississippi.
- What is the phone number of Marion General Hospital?
- (601) 736-6303, as listed by Medicare (CMS).
- What is the Medicare star rating of Marion General Hospital?
- 1 out of 5 stars in the CMS overall hospital quality rating (CMS data updated 2026-10-26).
- Does Medicare reduce its payments to Marion General Hospital for hospital-acquired conditions?
- Yes. For fiscal year 2026, CMS applies a 1-percent reduction to Medicare payments to Marion General Hospital under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (Total HAC Score: 2.1931; a lower score is better). It is an adjustment to what Medicare pays the hospital, not a charge to patients (CMS data released January 26, 2026).
Specialties and care areas[4]
- Emergency Medicine
- Critical Care
- Imaging and Radiology
- Rehabilitation
- Breast Health
- Infusion Services
- Respiratory Therapy
- Primary Care (Rural Health Clinic)
Treatments[4]
- Rehabilitation therapy
- Respiratory therapy
- Infusion therapy
- Swing bed skilled care
Procedures[4]
- X-ray
- Ultrasound
- CT scan
- MRI
- 3D mammography
- Nuclear medicine
- DEXA scan
- Laboratory testing
Programs and centers[4]
- Swing Bed Program
- Intensive Care Unit (6 beds)
- Medical Unit with telemetry
- Rural Health Clinic
Emergency care (hospital website)[4]
| Emergency room | Yes |
|---|---|
| Open 24/7 | Yes |
Visiting and practical information
| Visiting | General visiting hours 7:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.; ask your nurse about unit-specific policies[4] |
|---|---|
| Patient portal | Iris (Forrest Health) |
Doctors and clinicians (102)
102 doctors and other clinicians list Marion General Hospital as a hospital where they work, in Medicare's official clinician data (updated 2026-10-02). It is not a complete staff list.
Main specialties
- Nurse Practitioner32
- Diagnostic Radiology16
- Family Practice11
- Internal Medicine10
- Emergency Medicine8
- Hospitalist4
- Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology)2
- Hematology/Oncology2
- Nephrology2
- Interventional Cardiology2
- Urology2
- Infectious Disease1
Doctors with a page on this site (102)
- Adam Harless, MDInterventional Cardiology
- Aimmee Chestang, NPNurse Practitioner
- Ali Shahshahan, MDHospitalist
- Alicia Brister, NPNurse Practitioner
- Amber D. Ryals, NPNurse Practitioner
- Anna L. Williamson, NPNurse Practitioner
- Berthold Beisel, MDFamily Practice
- Billy Jefferson Jr., DOEmergency Medicine
- Brad H. Massey, NPNurse Practitioner
- Bradley N. Secrest, MDUrology
- Brandi F. Smith, NPNurse Practitioner
- Brandi R. Garris, NPNurse Practitioner
- Brandi R. Lockley, NPNurse Practitioner
- Brett D. Robbins, MDFamily Practice
- Carol Hobgood, NPNurse Practitioner
- Catherine C. Hulsey, MDHospitalist
- Chambre P. Ratliff, NPNurse Practitioner
- Charles R. Griffith, DOFamily Practice
- Christopher Sones, NPNurse Practitioner
- Christopher W. Blackwell, NPNurse Practitioner
- Cleveland A. Hudson, MDDiagnostic Radiology
- Cody C. Choate, DOFamily Practice
- Corey W. Sivils, MDDiagnostic Radiology
- Craig Thieling, MDInterventional Cardiology
And 78 more: the button below opens the full list.
Names link to the doctor’s page on this site when there is one, otherwise to the official NPI Registry record (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Find a doctor · Source: CMS Facility Affiliation Data
Other emergency rooms nearby
Hospitals that list emergency services, by straight-line distance (not driving distance).
- Walthall County General Hospital CAH23 mi · Tylertown, MS · Critical Access Hospital
- Jefferson Davis Community Hospital CAH24 mi · Prentiss, MS · Critical Access Hospital
- Merit Health Wesley27 mi · Hattiesburg, MS · Acute Care Hospital
- Lawrence County Hospital CAH27 mi · Monticello, MS · Critical Access Hospital
- Forrest General Hospital28 mi · Hattiesburg, MS · Acute Care Hospital
Find the closest emergency room to where you are → · Compare ER wait times
Other hospitals near Columbia
- South Mississippi State Hospital23 mi · Purvis, MS · Psychiatric Hospital
Nursing homes, hospice, home health and dialysis nearby
Medicare-certified providers within 25 miles, by straight-line distance. Hospice and home health care is given at home: their address is the office.
Nursing homes
- The Grove0.1 mi · Columbia, MS · 2 of 5 stars
- Myrtles Nursing Center, LLC0.7 mi · Columbia, MS · 3 of 5 stars
- Columbia Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center2.4 mi · Columbia, MS · 3 of 5 stars
All nursing homes in the state →
Hospice providers
- Enhabit Hospice24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS · 5 of 5 stars
- Forrest General Home Care and Hospice24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS · 5 of 5 stars
- Gentiva24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS
All hospice providers in the state →
Home health agencies
- Forrest General Home Care of Marion General1.9 mi · Columbia, MS · 3.5 of 5 stars
- Enhabit Home Health & Hospice24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS · 3.5 of 5 stars
- Forrest General Home Care24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS · 3.5 of 5 stars
All home health agencies in the state →
Dialysis facilities
- Columbia Dialysis1.9 mi · Columbia, MS · 3 of 5 stars
- Tylertown Dialysis21 mi · Tylertown, MS · 3 of 5 stars
- Hattiesburg Clinic Dialysis24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS · 3 of 5 stars
Outpatient surgery centers nearby
Medicare-certified ambulatory surgery centers within 25 miles, by straight-line distance.
- Digestive Disease Center of Hattiesburg24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS
- Hattiesburg Clinic Nephrology Vascular Access Center24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS
- Hattiesburg Eye Clinic Cataract & Lasik Surgery24 mi · Hattiesburg, MS
Community care nearby
Health centers, clinics, urgent care and pharmacies closest to this hospital, by straight-line distance, from official HRSA, Medicare and NPI Registry data. In a medical emergency, call 911.
Community health centers
- Family Health Care Clinic, Inc., --Columbia1.7 mi · Columbia, MS · Community health center
- Family Health Care Clinic, Columbia--Head Start8.2 mi · Columbia, MS · Community health center
- Baxterville School17 mi · Lumberton, MS · Community health center
Clinics and urgent care
- Fast Pace Health1.9 mi · Columbia, MS · Rural health clinic
- Internal Medicine Clinic of Columbia, P.A.1.9 mi · Columbia, MS · Rural health clinic
- Marion County General Hospital1.9 mi · Columbia, MS · Rural health clinic
Pharmacies
- Chemist LLC1.9 mi · Columbia, MS · Community/retail pharmacy
- Magnolia Medshoppe LLC1.9 mi · Columbia, MS · Community/retail pharmacy
- Wal-Mart Stores East LP1.9 mi · Columbia, MS · Community/retail pharmacy
About the Medicare star rating
CMS (the federal Medicare agency) gives many hospitals an overall rating from 1 to 5 stars, based on measures of mortality, safety, readmissions, patient experience and timely care. It is one piece of information: ask your doctor what matters for your care. See the full Medicare profile →
Medicare quality data
What Marion General Hospital reported to Medicare (CMS), the federal agency that publishes these results for hospitals nationwide. These are averages for many patients, not a prediction for any one person: ask your doctor what matters for your care. In a medical emergency, call 911.
What patients said (patient survey)
What this means: Patients who stayed overnight answered a national survey (HCAHPS) about their stay. More stars mean patients reported a better experience than at other hospitals. The percentages show how often patients gave the best answer, next to the national average.
| Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 69%National average: 72% |
|---|---|
| Would definitely recommend the hospital | 74%National average: 71% |
| Nurses “always” communicated well | 87%National average: 80% |
| Doctors “always” communicated well | 81%National average: 80% |
| “Always” got help as soon as they wanted | 59%National average: 64% |
| Staff “always” explained medicines before giving them | 54%National average: 62% |
| Were given information about recovery at home | 89%National average: 86% |
| Room and bathroom “always” clean | 69%National average: 73% |
| Not reported to Medicare | Summary star rating (all survey topics); Overall rating of the hospital; Would recommend the hospital; Nurses communicated well; Doctors communicated well; Patients got help quickly from staff; Staff explained medicines; Information about recovery at home; Room and bathroom kept clean; Restfulness of Environment; Care Coordination; Symptoms After Stay |
| Completed surveys | 40Response rate: 24% |
Source: Patient survey (HCAHPS) - Hospital — CMS, released October 19, 2026; patients discharged January 2025 to December 2025.
Complications and deaths
What this means: Death rates are the share of patients who died within 30 days of going into the hospital for that condition, adjusted for how sick they were. PSI-90 combines several serious complications (a lower number is better). “No different from the national rate” is the most common result and means the hospital is in line with hospitals nationwide.
| Deaths within 30 days: pneumonia patients | 19.4% |
|---|---|
| Not reported to Medicare | Deaths within 30 days: heart attack patients; Deaths within 30 days: stroke patients; Deaths within 30 days: coronary bypass surgery (CABG); Complications after hip or knee replacement |
| Too few cases to report | Deaths within 30 days: heart failure patients; Deaths within 30 days: COPD patients; Serious complications (patient safety indicator PSI-90) |
Source: Complications and Deaths - Hospital — CMS, released October 20, 2026; data from July 2022 to June 2025.
Return visits to the hospital (readmissions)
What this means: The share of patients who had to be admitted to a hospital again within 30 days after going home, adjusted for how sick they were. A lower percentage is better.
| Returned to any hospital within 30 days (all patients) | 16.9% |
|---|---|
| Readmitted within 30 days: pneumonia | 16.5% |
| Readmitted within 30 days: COPD | 20.3% |
| Not reported to Medicare | Readmitted within 30 days: heart attack; Readmitted within 30 days: coronary bypass surgery; Readmitted within 30 days: hip or knee replacement |
| Too few cases to report | Readmitted within 30 days: heart failure |
Source: Unplanned Hospital Visits - Hospital — CMS, released October 20, 2026; data from July 2024 to June 2025.
Emergency room times and sepsis care
What this means: ER time is the middle (median) time from arriving at the emergency room to leaving it; busier ERs usually have longer times, so the ER volume is shown too. Leaving before being seen: a lower percentage is better. Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection; a higher percentage means more patients got every recommended early step.
| Emergency room volume (patients per year) | Low (under 20,000) |
|---|---|
| Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency room before leaving (OP-18b) | 125 minutesNational average: 162 minutes |
| Patients who left the emergency room before being seen (OP-22) | 3%National average: 2% |
| Sepsis patients who got all the recommended early care (SEP-1) | 77%National average: 66% |
Source: Timely and Effective Care - Hospital — CMS, released October 19, 2026; data from January 2024 to December 2024.
Not reported to Medicare: infections caught in the hospital. For these topics Medicare shows no result for this hospital (not reported, or too few cases).
Medicare payment programs
Medicare (CMS) uses these federal programs to adjust what it pays hospitals, based on quality, safety and cost results. This is a payment to the hospital for Medicare patients, not a price you pay, and not a prediction for any one person. Results for Marion General Hospital, fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026).
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Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
What this means: Medicare gives each hospital a Total HAC Score built from patient-safety complications and from infections caught in the hospital. The quarter of hospitals with the highest (worst) scores gets a reduction in its Medicare payments. A lower score is better.
CMS says: Hospitals with a Total HAC Score above the 75th percentile of the Total HAC Score distribution will be subject to a 1-percent payment reduction.
| Medicare payment reduction, fiscal year 2026 | YesCMS applies a 1-percent payment reduction to this hospital. |
|---|---|
| Total HAC Score | 2.1931Lower is better. Hospitals above the 75th percentile of all scores get the reduction. |
Source: Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program — CMS, released January 26, 2026; patient-safety data from July 2022 to June 2024 and infection data from January 2023 to December 2024.
Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
What this means: For six conditions, Medicare compares how often this hospital’s patients had to go back into a hospital within 30 days with how often that happens at an average hospital with similar patients. The ratio is that comparison: 1 means as many readmissions as expected, above 1 means more than expected (CMS calls these “excess readmissions”), below 1 means fewer.
CMS says: In October 2012, CMS began reducing Medicare payments for subsection(d) hospitals with excess readmissions under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP).
| Heart failure | 1.0230More readmissions than expected |
|---|---|
| Pneumonia | 1.0012More readmissions than expected |
| No result published | Heart attack; COPD (chronic lung disease); Hip or knee replacement; Coronary bypass surgery (CABG) (not reported, or too few cases) |
Source: Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program — CMS, released January 26, 2026; patients discharged July 2021 to June 2024.
Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program
What this means: Medicare scores hospitals in four areas, each from 0 to 100, and combines them into a Total Performance Score from 0 to 100. A higher score means better results on these measures. Medicare uses the score to adjust what it pays the hospital.
CMS says: This program adjusts payments to hospitals under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) based on the quality of care they deliver.
| Total Performance Score | 15.00 out of 100Median of the 2,455 hospitals in the program: 29.50 |
|---|---|
| Clinical outcomes (deaths and complications) | 0.00 out of 100 |
| Safety (infections and sepsis care) | 15.00 out of 100 |
| Efficiency and cost reduction (Medicare spending) | 30.00 out of 100 |
| No result published | Person and community engagement (patient survey) (not reported, or too few cases) |
Source: Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) - Total Performance Score — CMS, released January 26, 2026, fiscal year 2026. Program description: The Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program — CMS, page last modified September 10, 2024.
Medicare spending per patient (MSPB)
What this means: This compares what Medicare spent on a hospital stay, counting the 3 days before it and the 30 days after, with the national median hospital, after adjusting for the patient’s age and health and for local prices. A ratio of 1.00 is the national median hospital; below 1.00 means Medicare spent less, above 1.00 means more. It measures the cost to Medicare, not the quality of care.
CMS says: The Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary (MSPB) Measure shows whether Medicare spends more, less, or about the same for an episode of care (episode) at a specific hospital compared to all hospitals nationally.
| Medicare spending per patient, ratio | 1.04Above the national median hospital (1.00): Medicare spent more |
|---|
Source: Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary - Hospital — CMS, released October 19, 2026; data from January 2024 to December 2024.
ER wait times and Medicare ratings nearby
How this hospital compares with others in the area, ranked only by official Medicare (CMS) numbers.
Prices
We have not been able to read a price file for Marion General Hospital yet. Every US hospital must publish its standard charges online (federal price transparency rule): look for “price transparency” or “standard charges” on the hospital’s website, or call the hospital and ask for an estimate. In a medical emergency, call 911.
Hospital information
| Hospital type | Acute Care Hospital |
|---|---|
| Address | 1560 Sumrall Rd, Columbia, MS 39429 |
| County | Marion County |
| State | Mississippi |
| Phone | (601) 736‑6303 |
| Emergency services | Yes |
| Ownership | Government - Local |
| Medicare overall rating | 1 of 5 stars |
| CMS Certification Number | 250085 |
| Name in Medicare records | MARION GENERAL HOSPITAL |
| Profile level | Medicare data + hospital website |
| Official website | forresthealth.org |
| Corrections | Report an error or suggest an update → |
Sources
- Hospital General Information — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data updated 2026-10-26, retrieved 2026-11-13
- Medicare Care Compare — official Medicare profile of this hospital
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder — map position used for distances
From the hospital’s website
Numbers match the citations above. Checked 2026-11-02.
- Marion General Hospital — forresthealth.org