Public records last refreshed: July 1, 2026. Quality measures carry their own reporting periods, shown on each measure.
Phoenix Verification Panel
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Hospital Intelligence
Public designations and programmes at SHELBY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER
Phoenix asserts a designation only when a public field supports it. Everything else links to the organisation that maintains the official record. None of this is a ranking.
CMS quality reporting
Reported in public data
20 public measures
Measures published by CMS quality programmes for this facility.
Each measure covers a defined population and reporting period. Missing data is never a score of zero.
20 public measures across 4 reporting categories. Categories with more measures are simply reported more often — this is coverage, not performance.
These bars show how much public data exists, not how good a hospital is. Phoenix never combines measures into a score or grade.
Phoenix Insight™
Why one measure should not define a hospital
Hospitals often perform differently across conditions, procedures, patient groups, and reporting periods.
A hospital may show a favorable result for one condition and an unfavorable result for another in the same year. Each measure is built for a specific population and question.
The most useful approach is to look at the measures closest to the care you expect to receive and bring your questions to the care team.
What this does not tell you
— Combining unrelated measures into one score is not supported by the official methodologies, and Phoenix does not do it.
— Phoenix Health Compass does not rate, rank, grade, or endorse hospitals. This is public information with context, not a conclusion.
Educational information only — not medical advice, and not a rating or endorsement of any provider.
Phoenix Insight™
Trauma designation and emergency care are not the same
A hospital can operate an emergency department without being designated as a trauma center.
Emergency departments treat urgent medical problems. Trauma designations indicate specific resources and capabilities for treating serious injuries, and designation levels and standards can vary by state.
Question to consider: “If a serious complication occurs, what emergency or transfer resources are available at this facility?”
What this does not tell you
— Emergency-service information in public data records whether services are reported, not what is staffed at a given moment.
— Phoenix cannot tell you where to go in an emergency. In an emergency, call 911 or seek immediate care.
Educational information only — not medical advice, and not a rating or endorsement of any provider.
Public quality measures
Reported by government programs and shown with their reporting period, definition, and limits. Phoenix does not create scores, grades, or rankings from these values.
Emergency-department care
Emergency-department care
Emergency department volume
medium
•Number reported without a benchmark
Reporting period:
Period ending Dec 2024
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
Describes how long emergency-department care steps took during the reporting period. For this measure, a lower number is generally considered favorable.
Timing measures reflect the reporting period and can change quickly with staffing and volume.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Describes how long emergency-department care steps took during the reporting period. For this measure, a lower number is generally considered favorable.
Timing measures reflect the reporting period and can change quickly with staffing and volume.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Average (median) time all patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit, including psychiatric/mental health patients and patients who were transferred to another facility. A lower number of minutes is better
180
•Number reported without a benchmark
Reporting period:
Period ending Sep 2025
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
Describes how long emergency-department care steps took during the reporting period. For this measure, a lower number is generally considered favorable.
Timing measures reflect the reporting period and can change quickly with staffing and volume.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit, excluding patients transferred to another facility or psychiatric care/mental health patients. A lower number of minutes is better
182
•Number reported without a benchmark
Reporting period:
Period ending Sep 2025
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
Describes how long emergency-department care steps took during the reporting period. For this measure, a lower number is generally considered favorable.
Timing measures reflect the reporting period and can change quickly with staffing and volume.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Average (median) time psychiatric/mental health patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit. A lower number of minutes is better
Not reported
—Not available
Reporting period:
Period ending Sep 2025
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
Describes how long emergency-department care steps took during the reporting period. For this measure, a lower number is generally considered favorable.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
Timing measures reflect the reporting period and can change quickly with staffing and volume.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before being transferred to another facility. A lower number of minutes is better
Not reported
—Not available
Reporting period:
Period ending Sep 2025
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
Describes how long emergency-department care steps took during the reporting period. For this measure, a lower number is generally considered favorable.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
Timing measures reflect the reporting period and can change quickly with staffing and volume.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Global Malnutrition Composite Score: Malnutrition Diagnosis Documented
Not reported
—Not available
Reporting period:
Period ending Dec 2024
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Global Malnutrition Composite Score: Nutrition Assessment
Not reported
—Not available
Reporting period:
Period ending Dec 2024
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Global Malnutrition Composite Score: Nutritional Care Plan
Not reported
—Not available
Reporting period:
Period ending Dec 2024
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
A publicly reported measure. Open the official source record for the full definition, population, and methodology. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Global Malnutrition Composite Score: Malnutrition Risk Screening
Not reported
—Not available
Reporting period:
Period ending Dec 2024
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
Describes how often a preventive step was completed for eligible patients or staff. For this measure, a higher number is generally considered favorable.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
Eligibility rules differ between measures and reporting years.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Describes how often a preventive step was completed for eligible patients or staff. For this measure, a higher number is generally considered favorable.
Eligibility rules differ between measures and reporting years.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Endoscopy/polyp surveillance: appropriate follow-up interval for normal colonoscopy in average risk patients
Not reported
—Not available
Reporting period:
Period ending Dec 2024
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
Describes processes or results for specific surgical or procedural care. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
A surgical measure covers only the procedures named in its definition.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Improvement in Patient's Visual Function within 90 Days Following Cataract Surgery
Not reported
—Not available
Reporting period:
Period ending Dec 2024
Source:
Medicare Care Compare
Describes processes or results for specific surgical or procedural care. This measure has no simple favorable direction — read it alongside its definition.
A withheld result is never treated as zero and must not be compared with a reported value.
A surgical measure covers only the procedures named in its definition.
This measure covers a defined patient group and reporting period; it does not describe every patient or service at the hospital.
One measure is never a judgement about an entire hospital.
Survey results describe what discharged patients reported during a reporting period. They are not a measure of clinical quality, and Phoenix does not publish user reviews.
No patient-experience survey results have been retrieved for this facility yet.
Services and capabilities
Phoenix lists a service only when a source reports it, and never presents availability as evidence of expertise.
A normalized service and technology list has not been retrieved for this facility. Confirm any specific service, campus, and care team directly with the hospital before scheduling or traveling.
Accreditations and certifications
Accreditation reviews structures and processes on a set cycle. Awards and commercial rankings are not accreditation.
No accreditation record has been retrieved for this facility. Confirm current status with The Joint Commission, DNV Healthcare, or another accrediting organization.
Location and arrival
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Campus entrances, departments, and parking rules change. Confirm arrival instructions directly with the hospital.
Phoenix Insight™
What hospital ownership means
Ownership describes who legally owns the hospital — for example a government body, a nonprofit organization, or a for-profit company.
Ownership is reported in public federal records. It tells you about the hospital's legal and financial structure, such as whether it is run by a city or county, a nonprofit health system, or a for-profit company.
Ownership is separate from branding, from the health system whose name appears on the building, and from who manages daily operations. A hospital can carry a well-known system's name through an affiliation without that system owning it.
What this does not tell you
— Ownership does not tell you anything about the care an individual patient will receive.
— Ownership records can lag behind mergers, sales, or management changes by months.
— Phoenix Health Compass does not rate, rank, grade, or endorse hospitals. This is public information with context, not a conclusion.
Educational information only — not medical advice, and not a rating or endorsement of any provider.
Phoenix Insight™
What a teaching hospital is
A teaching hospital trains medical residents and fellows alongside fully licensed physicians who supervise them.
Teaching hospitals participate in graduate medical education, so doctors in training may take part in your care under supervision. Many teaching hospitals are affiliated with a medical school.
Teaching status is a structural fact about the hospital. It does not, by itself, establish that care is better or worse than at a non-teaching hospital.
What this does not tell you
— Teaching status says nothing about a specific department, procedure, or care team.
— Reported teaching status can differ between datasets and reporting years.
— Phoenix Health Compass does not rate, rank, grade, or endorse hospitals. This is public information with context, not a conclusion.
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