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HospitalEmory Hillandale Hospital Estimated FY2026 net: −$11K×

Hospital record · FY2026CCN 110226

1Hospital

Emory Hillandale Hospital

2Location

Lithonia, GA (Georgia’s hospitals on the map and in the table) 30058

DeKalb County

3Type

Not a teaching hospital · 84 beds · Government · Urban

4Care Compare stars

1 of 5 stars

Overall rating, CMS Care Compare data of July 22, 2026
Open on Care Compare (opens in a new tab)

5Total HAC Score

0.0473

As CMS reports it

6Payment reduction

No cut
CMS’s value: No

7Estimated cut

$0
A cut would have been $113K, likely $83⁠–⁠140K estimate

No cut

$0

from this program

For fiscal year 2026, CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 0.0473 for Emory Hillandale Hospital and a payment reduction decision of No.

A cut would have taken about $113K estimate 1% of about $11.3M, this site’s estimate of what traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays in a year. Its score was 0.3326 under 0.3799, the lowest score CMS cut.

Likely range $83–140K

Its score was at or below CMS’s line, so this program did not cut its Medicare payments for the year. The score compares hospitals with each other; it is not a grade of the quality of care.

CMS cut scores of 0.3799 and above.

Each year CMS cuts the hospitals with the highest quarter of scores, those above the 75th percentile, so the line moves with other hospitals’ scores.

lowest −1.4728 highest 2.3133 1% cut Middle hospital: −0.0453 Middle hospital−0.0453 CMS’s line: 0.3799 and up CMS’s line0.3799 and up This hospital: 0.0473 This hospital 0.0473 lowest −1.4728 highest 2.3133 1% cut Middle hospital: −0.0453 Middle hospital−0.0453 CMS’s line: 0.3799 and up CMS’s line0.3799 and up This hospital: 0.0473 This hospital 0.0473

Higher than 55% of the other 2,928 scores CMS published (higher is worse).

Its record, fiscal years 2015 to 2026 Cut in 4 of 11 years

  1. 15Cut
  2. 16No
  3. 17No
  4. 18Cut
  5. 19Cut
  6. 20Cut
  7. 21No
  8. 22No
  9. 23—
  10. 24No
  11. 25No
  12. 26No

Where the score came from

CMS scored this hospital on all 6 measures. On every measure a lower value is better. Each row puts the hospital among every hospital with a value: the gray columns are those hospitals, the tall tick is the national median, and the hatched ends score the same as CMS’s floor or cap.

Bringing SSI down to the national median (0.795) would lower the score the most: by 0.2758, to −0.2285. Try it in the what-if

Figure 1. Of its 6 measures with a value, this hospital is above the national median on 2; SSI added the most to its score.
  • This hospital
  • National median
  • Scores the same as CMS’s floor or cap
  1. PSI 90 (what it counts)

    Safety problems such as serious bedsores, falls that break a bone and blood clots after surgery, found by CMS in traditional Medicare claims. A value of 1 matches the national composite value.

    Patient safety and adverse events composite

    Better than 61% of the other 2,808 hospitals

    estimate

    This site recomputes this measure’s z‑score from CMS’s published value. The recompute can differ from CMS’s z‑score by up to 0.0021. How this site estimates

    CMS value0.9374

    Z-score−0.3561

    Part of score−0.0594

  2. CLABSI (what it counts)

    Bloodstream infections tied to a central line, a tube often placed in a large vein in the neck, chest or groin. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.

    Central line–associated bloodstream infections

    Worse than 76% of the other 2,181 hospitals

    CMS value0.899

    Z-score0.6790

    Part of score+0.1132

  3. CAUTI (what it counts)

    Urinary tract infections that start from a urinary catheter, a tube that drains the bladder. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.

    Catheter-associated urinary tract infections

    Better than 51% of the other 2,354 hospitals

    CMS value0.476

    Z-score−0.1712

    Part of score−0.0285

  4. SSI (what it counts)

    Deep infections at the site of colon surgery or an abdominal hysterectomy, within a month of the operation, pooled into one measure. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.

    added the most

    Surgical site infections after colon surgery or abdominal hysterectomy

    Worse than 90% of the other 2,269 hospitals

    CMS value1.761

    Z-score1.5601

    Part of score+0.2600

  5. CDI (what it counts)

    C. diff infections, which cause diarrhea and inflammation of the colon, found by a lab test and starting in the hospital. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.

    Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections

    Better than 89% of the other 2,766 hospitals

    estimate

    This site recomputes this measure’s z‑score from CMS’s published value. The recompute can differ from CMS’s z‑score by up to 0.0071. How this site estimates

    CMS value0.049

    Z-score−1.2724

    Part of score−0.2121

  6. MRSA (what it counts)

    Bloodstream infections with MRSA, a germ that resists several antibiotics, found by a lab test and starting in the hospital. Hospitals report them to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. A value of 1.0 means as many infections as the CDC’s model predicted.

    MRSA bloodstream infections

    Better than 51% of the other 2,067 hospitals

    CMS value0.623

    Z-score−0.1553

    Part of score−0.0259

Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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MeasureCMS valueNational medianZ-scorePart of the scoreAmong hospitals
PSI 900.93740.9623−0.3561−0.0594Better than 61% of the other 2,808 hospitals
CLABSI0.8990.5590.6790+0.1132Worse than 76% of the other 2,181 hospitals
CAUTI0.4760.489−0.1712−0.0285Better than 51% of the other 2,354 hospitals
SSI1.7610.7951.5601+0.2600Worse than 90% of the other 2,269 hospitals
CDI0.0490.346−1.2724−0.2121Better than 89% of the other 2,766 hospitals
MRSA0.6230.641−0.1553−0.0259Better than 51% of the other 2,067 hospitals

How the parts add up

CMS adds the z‑scores and divides by the number of measures scored, so each measure counts the same. Each bar below is one z‑score divided by 6; a bar right of zero raised the score and one left of zero lowered it.

(−0.3561PSI 90+0.6790CLABSI−0.1712CAUTI+1.5601SSI−1.2724CDI−0.1553MRSA)÷6measures=0.0473Total HAC Score

Added from the rounded z‑scores CMS published, the parts make 0.0474; CMS reports 0.0473. The small difference is rounding.

This hospital’s score is 0.3326 below 0.3799, the lowest score CMS marked Yes. (This site recomputes.)

Figure 2. The parts add up to 0.0473, below CMS’s line.
1% cut PSI 90: z‑score −0.3561 divided by 6 = −0.0594PSI 90−0.0594 CLABSI: z‑score 0.6790 divided by 6 = +0.1132CLABSI+0.1132 CAUTI: z‑score −0.1712 divided by 6 = −0.0285CAUTI−0.0285 SSI: z‑score 1.5601 divided by 6 = +0.2600SSI+0.2600 CDI: z‑score −1.2724 divided by 6 = −0.2121CDI−0.2121 MRSA: z‑score −0.1553 divided by 6 = −0.0259MRSA−0.0259 Total HAC Score: 0.0473Score0.0473 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −0.10.00.10.20.30.4 1% cut PSI 90: z‑score −0.3561 divided by 6 = −0.0594PSI 90−0.0594 CLABSI: z‑score 0.6790 divided by 6 = +0.1132CLABSI+0.1132 CAUTI: z‑score −0.1712 divided by 6 = −0.0285CAUTI−0.0285 SSI: z‑score 1.5601 divided by 6 = +0.2600SSI+0.2600 CDI: z‑score −1.2724 divided by 6 = −0.2121CDI−0.2121 MRSA: z‑score −0.1553 divided by 6 = −0.0259MRSA−0.0259 Total HAC Score: 0.0473Score0.0473 CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −0.10.00.10.20.30.4

This site recomputes · Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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MeasureZ-scorePart of the scoreRunning total
PSI 90−0.3561−0.0594−0.0594
CLABSI0.6790+0.11320.0538
CAUTI−0.1712−0.02850.0253
SSI1.5601+0.26000.2853
CDI−1.2724−0.21210.0732
MRSA−0.1553−0.02590.0473
Total HAC Score0.0473
CMS’s line0.37920.3799

The money is a cliff

This program’s cut doesn’t grow with the score. Over CMS’s line, CMS cuts 1% of what traditional Medicare pays a hospital for inpatient stays that year; at or under the line, this program cuts nothing.

The chart draws what the cut would be for this hospital at any Total HAC Score, from this site’s estimate of its payments, with its own score marked.

Figure 3. The cut is a cliff, not a slope: this hospital’s score, 0.3326 under the lowest score CMS cut, costs it nothing; 0.3326 higher, the cut would have been about $113K by this site’s estimate, the same as at CMS’s highest score, 2.3133.
CMS’s line $0 at any score up to 0.3792 $113K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $113K at any score from 0.3799 −1012 CMS’s highest score: 2.3133 CMS’s highest score 2.3133 This hospital: 0.0473 This hospital 0.0473 CMS’s line $0 at any score up to 0.3792 $113K at any score from 0.3799 $0at any score up to 0.3792 $113Kat any score from 0.3799 −1.0−0.50.00.51.01.52.0 CMS’s highest score: 2.3133 CMS’s highest score 2.3133 This hospital: 0.0473 This hospital 0.0473

Under the axis, every Total HAC Score CMS published: 306 of the 2,929 scored within 0.1 of CMS’s line, on one side or the other.

Estimate · Source: this site’s arithmetic on CMS’s FY2026 IPPS final rule files (the impact file, the rate tables and the value-based factors), its FY2026 HRRP supplemental file and HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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ScoreTotal HAC ScoreEstimated HAC cut (whole dollars)
Any score up to 0.37920.3792$0
Any score from 0.37990.3799−$112,742
This hospital0.0473$0
CMS’s highest score2.3133−$112,742

The money, line by line

This site estimates what traditional Medicare pays the hospital for a year of inpatient stays, from CMS’s FY2026 payment files, then applies Medicare’s three hospital quality programs: the readmissions and value-based adjustments to the base payment, and the HAC cut last, as the law sets.

The readmissions and value-based programs adjust only the base payment: the DRG rates times the hospital’s cases, and a Medicare-dependent hospital’s add-on. The HAC cut comes last and takes 1% of everything left, teaching, low-income-patient, outlier, capital and uncompensated care payments included.

($11,285,061payment−$28,621readmissions+$17,754value-based)×1%the cut=$112,742at stake

$112,742at stake÷561traditional Medicare stays=$201per traditional Medicare stay

Figure 4. No HAC cut this year; 1% of the hospital’s whole inpatient payment would have been about $113K by this site’s estimate. The readmissions and value-based adjustments, on the base alone, came to −$29K and +$18K.

Estimated Medicare inpatient payments · FY2026 estimate

What traditional Medicare pays it for inpatient stays
DRG payments at the federal rates the base $5,724,219
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share) $171,727
Outliers: unusually costly stays $505,449
Capital: buildings and equipment $448,618
Uncompensated care $4,435,048
Total, before the three programs $11,285,061
The three programs: two on the base, the HAC cut last
Readmissions (HRRP) base × (0.9950 − 1) −$28,621
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) base × (1.0031 − 1) +$17,754
After these two $11,274,194
HAC Reduction Program no cut; 1% would have been $112,742 $0
Net of the three programs likely −$14K to −$8K −$10,867

Not paid to this hospital: a Medicare-dependent hospital add-on, teaching payments, a sole community hospital rate difference, and a low-volume adjustment.

Whole dollars, so every line adds up; the estimate is not that precise. Each likely range spans the middle 80% of the misses this site’s estimate made for similar hospitals (or for a wider group, where there were too few) when it was checked against their FY2024 cost reports: one year’s check, not a promise of how often a hospital’s actual figure lands inside.

Estimate · Source: this site’s arithmetic on CMS’s FY2026 IPPS final rule files (the impact file, the rate tables and the value-based factors), its FY2026 HRRP supplemental file and HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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LineAmount (whole dollars)
DRG payments at the federal rates (the base)$5,724,219
Many low-income patients (disproportionate share)$171,727
Outliers: unusually costly stays$505,449
Capital: buildings and equipment$448,618
Uncompensated care$4,435,048
Total, before the three programs$11,285,061
Readmissions (HRRP) (base × (0.9950 − 1))−$28,621
Value-based purchasing (HVBP) (base × (1.0031 − 1))+$17,754
After these two$11,274,194
HAC Reduction Program (no cut; 1% would have been $112,742)$0
Net of the three programs (likely −$14K to −$8K)−$10,867

What if a measure were different?

Change a measure’s value to see how this site recomputes the Total HAC Score, the payment reduction decision and, by its estimate, the money, starting from CMS’s values. The money doesn’t slide with the score: it drops off a cliff at CMS’s line.

The what-if needs JavaScript. Without it, the values below stay as they are.

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CMS reportsHypothetical
Total HAC Score0.0473same
Payment reduction decisionNosame
Payment cut0%same
Estimated HAC cut estimate$0same

CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799

The faint ticks are CMS’s line in earlier years under the same formula, from about 0.300 (FY2022) to about 0.375 (FY2024). The line moves every year, so a hospital can cross it without changing anything.

CMS reports a Total HAC Score of 0.0473 and a payment reduction decision of No.

A what-if shows the formula’s arithmetic, not what a hospital could realistically change or how. CMS’s real result also depends on other hospitals.

How much cushion?

Staying at or under CMS’s line keeps about $113K out of this program’s cut, this site estimates: a score a hair over would cost all of it.

From CMS’s values, one measure at a time, with every other measure held at CMS’s value.

MeasureHighest value that keeps No
PSI 90up to 1.2225
CLABSIany value: every CLABSI value past the cap (1.572) scores the same
CAUTIup to 1.302
SSIany value: every SSI value past the cap (2.118) scores the same
CDIup to 0.563
MRSAup to 1.575

Each measure weighs 1 ÷ 6 of the score.

Measure values

SIR 1.0 = as many infections as predicted · Lower is better

On each track the tick is the national median; shaded values score the same as the floor or cap, as this site fits them to CMS’s values.

CMS 0.9374 · median 0.9623 · floor 0.7760 · cap 1.3482 · each 0.1 = 0.1164

CMS 0.899 · median 0.559 · cap 1.572 · each 0.1 = 0.0387

CMS 0.476 · median 0.489 · cap 1.537 · each 0.1 = 0.0402

CMS 1.761 · median 0.795 · cap 2.118 · each 0.1 = 0.0286

CMS 0.049 · median 0.346 · cap 0.944 · each 0.1 = 0.0645

CMS 0.623 · median 0.641 · cap 1.762 · each 0.1 = 0.0348

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Figure 5. SSI added the most to this hospital’s Total HAC Score of 0.0473 among its measured results: +0.2600.
  • PSI 90 −0.0594
  • CLABSI +0.1132
  • CAUTI −0.0285
  • SSI +0.2600
  • CDI −0.2121
  • MRSA −0.0259

A measure adds its z‑score divided by 6, the number of measures scored. Bars right of the center line raise the score. Hatched: assigned by CMS.

This site recomputes · Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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MeasureZ-scorePart of the scoreHypothetical
PSI 90−0.3561−0.0594same
CLABSI0.6790+0.1132same
CAUTI−0.1712−0.0285same
SSI1.5601+0.2600same
CDI−1.2724−0.2121same
MRSA−0.1553−0.0259same

Interactive what-if at https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/110226/

Among hospitals with a Yes or No payment decision, CMS cut those with a published Total HAC Score of 0.3799 or higher and none at 0.3792 or lower. Maryland’s hospitals are scored but not subject to the reduction.

Held fixed: every other hospital’s results, CMS’s line, and each measure’s mean, spread, floor and cap as this site fits them to CMS’s published values.

Year by year

Where this hospital’s score fell among every hospital’s, each year CMS published one. A score near the top is among the highest; the shaded band is where CMS cut. Places compare across years even where CMS changed how it builds the score.

Its longest run: cut 3 years in a row.

Figure 6. CMS cut this hospital in 4 of the 11 years it made a decision.
highest middle lowest z‑scoresequal weights no scores FY2015: score 8.0500, higher than 90% of scores; cutFY2016: score 6.7500, higher than 72% of scores; not cutFY2017: score 6.2800, higher than 69% of scores; not cutFY2018: score 0.4037, higher than 77% of scores; cutFY2019: score 0.5846, higher than 85% of scores; cutFY2020: score 0.5499, higher than 84% of scores; cutFY2021: score 0.1582, higher than 65% of scores; not cutFY2022: score 0.0139, higher than 53% of scores; not cutFY2024: score 0.0864, higher than 59% of scores; not cutFY2025: score −0.2435, higher than 34% of scores; not cutFY2026: score 0.0473, higher than 55% of scores; not cut 161820222426 highest middle lowest z‑scoresequal weights no scores FY2015: score 8.0500, higher than 90% of scores; cutFY2016: score 6.7500, higher than 72% of scores; not cutFY2017: score 6.2800, higher than 69% of scores; not cutFY2018: score 0.4037, higher than 77% of scores; cutFY2019: score 0.5846, higher than 85% of scores; cutFY2020: score 0.5499, higher than 84% of scores; cutFY2021: score 0.1582, higher than 65% of scores; not cutFY2022: score 0.0139, higher than 53% of scores; not cutFY2024: score 0.0864, higher than 59% of scores; not cutFY2025: score −0.2435, higher than 34% of scores; not cutFY2026: score 0.0473, higher than 55% of scores; not cut 151617181920212223242526

● Red: a year CMS cut it ○ Hollow: a year it didn’t

This site recomputes · Source: CMS, HACRP hospital files for fiscal years 2015 to 2026 (Provider Data Catalog, its archives and, for the oldest years, the Internet Archive’s copies), and CMS’s cut lists for FY2015 and FY2016.

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Fiscal yearTotal HAC ScoreHigher than this share of scoresPayment reduction
FY20158.050090.6%cut
FY20166.750072.4%not cut
FY20176.280069.9%not cut
FY20180.403777.4%cut
FY20190.584685.2%cut
FY20200.549984.6%cut
FY20210.158265.0%not cut
FY20220.013953.8%not cut
FY2023no decision
FY20240.086459.5%not cut
FY2025−0.243534.9%not cut
FY20260.047355.7%not cut

Its infections, year by year

This hospital’s infection rate against prediction for each calendar year Care Compare published one, on each measure with at least two years of results (black), over the nation’s middle hospital (gray). Below the dashed line at one, fewer infections than predicted. Each year is measured against the same fixed baseline, not against other hospitals, so unlike the score they can all improve at once.

Figure 7. 4 of its 5 infection measures ended lower than they started.
CLABSI 1.29 → 1.23 1as predicted 0 ’18’21’24 Nation’s middle CLABSI, 2017: 1.290CLABSI, 2018: 0.726CLABSI, 2019: 0.728CLABSI, 2021: 0.000CLABSI, 2022: 3.294CLABSI, 2023: 0.498CLABSI, 2024: 1.229 CAUTI 1.99 → 0.90 1 0 ’18’21’24 CAUTI, 2017: 1.988CAUTI, 2018: 0.000CAUTI, 2019: 0.000CAUTI, 2021: 0.521CAUTI, 2022: 0.629CAUTI, 2023: 0.000CAUTI, 2024: 0.899 SSI, colon 0.96 → 2.56 1 0 ’18’21’24 SSI, colon, 2017: 0.963SSI, colon, 2024: 2.560 MRSA 1.98 → 0.00 1 0 ’18’21’24 MRSA, 2017: 1.978MRSA, 2019: 0.912MRSA, 2021: 0.628MRSA, 2022: 0.929MRSA, 2023: 1.219MRSA, 2024: 0.000 C. diff 0.75 → 0.00 1 0 ’18’21’24 C. diff, 2017: 0.753C. diff, 2018: 0.961C. diff, 2019: 0.523C. diff, 2021: 0.632C. diff, 2022: 0.000C. diff, 2023: 0.103C. diff, 2024: 0.000 CLABSI 1.29 → 1.23 1as predicted 0 ’18’20’22’24 Nation’s middle CLABSI, 2017: 1.290CLABSI, 2018: 0.726CLABSI, 2019: 0.728CLABSI, 2021: 0.000CLABSI, 2022: 3.294CLABSI, 2023: 0.498CLABSI, 2024: 1.229 CAUTI 1.99 → 0.90 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 CAUTI, 2017: 1.988CAUTI, 2018: 0.000CAUTI, 2019: 0.000CAUTI, 2021: 0.521CAUTI, 2022: 0.629CAUTI, 2023: 0.000CAUTI, 2024: 0.899 SSI, colon 0.96 → 2.56 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 SSI, colon, 2017: 0.963SSI, colon, 2024: 2.560 MRSA 1.98 → 0.00 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 MRSA, 2017: 1.978MRSA, 2019: 0.912MRSA, 2021: 0.628MRSA, 2022: 0.929MRSA, 2023: 1.219MRSA, 2024: 0.000 C. diff 0.75 → 0.00 1 0 ’18’20’22’24 C. diff, 2017: 0.753C. diff, 2018: 0.961C. diff, 2019: 0.523C. diff, 2021: 0.632C. diff, 2022: 0.000C. diff, 2023: 0.103C. diff, 2024: 0.000

Source: CMS Care Compare, healthcare-associated infections by hospital, calendar years 2017 to 2024 (Provider Data Catalog archives; the oldest year through the Internet Archive’s copy).

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Calendar yearCLABSICAUTISSI, colonMRSAC. diff
20171.2901.9880.9631.9780.753
20180.7260.0000.961
20190.7280.0000.9120.523
20210.0000.5210.6280.632
20223.2940.6290.9290.000
20230.4980.0001.2190.103
20241.2290.8992.5600.0000.000

Among hospitals like it

Each row is a group this hospital belongs to, drawn from every hospital in it with a payment decision. Red columns are hospitals past CMS’s line, the ones CMS cut; the short tick is the group’s middle score.

In Georgia, its score is higher than 47% of the other 88 scored there.

In Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA area, its score is higher than 39% of the other 28 scored there.

Figure 8. Its score is above the middle in 5 of the 8 groups it belongs to; the share cut runs from 22% (South region) to 38% (Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA area).
All hospitals: CMS cut 718 of 2,886 (25%); middle score −0.0453All hospitals 2,886 hospitals25% cut South region: CMS cut 263 of 1,174 (22%); middle score −0.1056South region 1,174 hospitals22% cut Georgia: CMS cut 27 of 89 (30%); middle score 0.0932Georgia 89 hospitals30% cut Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA area: CMS cut 11 of 29 (38%); middle score 0.1550Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA area29 hospitals38% cut Not teaching: CMS cut 389 of 1,563 (25%); middle score −0.1053Not teaching 1,563 hospitals25% cut Fewer than 100 beds: CMS cut 225 of 805 (28%); middle score −0.1154Fewer than 100 beds 805 hospitals28% cut Government: CMS cut 140 of 401 (35%); middle score 0.1602Government 401 hospitals35% cut Urban: CMS cut 510 of 2,241 (23%); middle score −0.0574Urban 2,241 hospitals23% cut CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −1012 This hospital: 0.0473 This hospital 0.0473 All hospitals: CMS cut 718 of 2,886 (25%); middle score −0.0453All hospitals2,886 hospitals25% cut South region: CMS cut 263 of 1,174 (22%); middle score −0.1056South region1,174 hospitals22% cut Georgia: CMS cut 27 of 89 (30%); middle score 0.0932Georgia89 hospitals30% cut Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA area: CMS cut 11 of 29 (38%); middle score 0.1550Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA area29 hospitals38% cut Not teaching: CMS cut 389 of 1,563 (25%); middle score −0.1053Not teaching1,563 hospitals25% cut Fewer than 100 beds: CMS cut 225 of 805 (28%); middle score −0.1154Fewer than 100 beds805 hospitals28% cut Government: CMS cut 140 of 401 (35%); middle score 0.1602Government401 hospitals35% cut Urban: CMS cut 510 of 2,241 (23%); middle score −0.0574Urban2,241 hospitals23% cut CMS’s line: between 0.3792 and 0.3799 CMS’s line −1.5−1.0−0.50.00.51.01.52.0 This hospital: 0.0473 This hospital 0.0473

Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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GroupWith a decisionHospitals cutShare cutMiddle scoreHospital higher than
All hospitals2,88671825%−0.045355%
South region1,17426322%−0.105659%
Georgia892730%0.093247%
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA area291138%0.155039%
Not teaching1,56338925%−0.105359%
Fewer than 100 beds80522528%−0.115458%
Government40114035%0.160244%
Urban2,24151023%−0.057456%
This hospital0.0473
CMS’s line0.37920.3799

The nearest hospitals

The 8 closest hospitals with a Total HAC Score, in a straight line. The squares are each hospital’s measures in order: filled, above the national median; open, at or below it; hatched, assigned by CMS; blank, not scored.

Figure 9. CMS cut 4 of the 8 nearest hospitals; the closest is 9 miles away.
5 mi10 mi8. Piedmont Hospital, Inc, Atlanta: score −0.3183, not cut, 16 miles87. Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta: score 0.7132, cut, 14 miles76. Piedmont Eastside Medical Center, Snellville: score 0.1603, not cut, 14 miles65. Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta: score 0.4513, cut, 14 miles54. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta: score 0.7113, cut, 12 miles43. Piedmont Henry Hospital, Stockbridge: score −0.2326, not cut, 11 miles32. Emory Decatur Hospital, Decatur: score 0.4235, cut, 10 miles21. Piedmont Rockdale Hospital, Conyers: score 0.1479, not cut, 9 miles1This hospital: Emory Hillandale Hospital

Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.

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HospitalMilesScoreDecision
Piedmont Rockdale Hospital, Conyers, GA90.1479not cut
Emory Decatur Hospital, Decatur, GA100.4235cut
Piedmont Henry Hospital, Stockbridge, GA11−0.2326not cut
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA120.7113cut
Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA140.4513cut
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center, Snellville, GA140.1603not cut
Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, GA140.7132cut
Piedmont Hospital, Inc, Atlanta, GA16−0.3183not cut

#HospitalMilesScoreDecisionEst. cut ($, modeled)Measures
1Piedmont Rockdale HospitalConyers, GA90.1479No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
2Emory Decatur HospitalDecatur, GA100.42351% cut$325KAbove the national median on 4 of 6 measures
3Piedmont Henry HospitalStockbridge, GA11−0.2326No cut$0Above the national median on 2 of 6 measures
4Emory University HospitalAtlanta, GA120.71131% cut$2.0MAbove the national median on 5 of 6 measures
5Grady Memorial HospitalAtlanta, GA140.45131% cut$1.6MAbove the national median on 4 of 6 measures
6Piedmont Eastside Medical CenterSnellville, GA140.1603No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures
7Emory University Hospital MidtownAtlanta, GA140.71321% cut$881KAbove the national median on 4 of 6 measures
8Piedmont Hospital, IncAtlanta, GA16−0.3183No cut$0Above the national median on 3 of 6 measures

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Paid & Penalized. Emory Hillandale Hospital, Lithonia, GA: Hospital-Acquired Conditions, FY2026. https://paidandpenalized.org/hacrp/hospital/110226/. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, HACRP FY2026 (yq43-i98g), released August 13, 2026.