Crete Area Medical Center
Crete, NE
24/7 ER
Acute Care Hospital
Friend Community Healthcare System
24/7 Emergency Services
About this facility
This specialty facility is evaluated under a quality program that differs from the CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating used for acute care hospitals. The NotRatedBadge above explains which program applies. Specialty quality measures are surfaced when CMS publishes them for this facility.
Clinical Staff
Friend Community Healthcare System has 6 CMS-affiliated clinicians on its roster — physicians, advanced practice providers, and other Medicare-enrolled professionals who list this hospital as an affiliated facility.
Top specialties
- Nurse Practitioner 3
- Physician Assistant 1
- Podiatry 1
Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.
Practice characteristics
- Accept Medicare assignment
- 4 (67%)
- Offer telehealth
- 0 (0%)
Bill Medicare directly at the approved rate — patients only owe co-insurance/deductible.
Indicated by the clinician in their CMS profile as routinely providing virtual visits.
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare) national downloadable file and MIPS Performance Year final scores, as of 2026-05-27. Affiliations from the CMS Facility Affiliations dataset. About 16% of small facilities (critical access, rural emergency, freestanding psych, IRF/LTCH) do not appear in the affiliations file and therefore have no panel.
Find a Doctor
Search the 5 clinicians affiliated with Friend Community Healthcare System. Each name links to that clinician's official Medicare Care Compare profile, where you can see their credentials, secondary specialties, group affiliations, and (when applicable) MIPS quality scores.
- Nurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Podiatry✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
No clinicians match that search. Try a broader term like "internal medicine" or just a last name.
Roster from CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare), updated 2026-05-27. A clinician may also practice at other facilities; "affiliated" means this hospital is on their CMS profile, not that they exclusively work here.
Pricing & Costs
Facility Information
- Facility type
- Rural Emergency Hospital
- Ownership
- Government - Local
- Emergency services
- Yes — 24/7
Nearby Hospitals
About this data
Quality and ratings data are sourced from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare program. Star ratings are CMS's own calculation; CareRanks does not modify or re-weight them. Facility-level details (address, beds, ownership, teaching status) come from CMS provider files and the CMS Provider of Services file.
Pricing data, where shown, is drawn from the hospital's own Machine-Readable File (MRF) published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. See our methodology for the full update cadence and limitations.