Some of the RN, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Patient Care Technician, Case Manager, and Hospitalist staff during morning rounds in the Patient Care Unit.

Four stars

That's the latest quality ranking for Dosher by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and a one-star improvement on the government's five-star scale.

The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient survey results show Dosher scored higher than both the North Carolina and national averages on all 10 hospital quality categories, such as "Patients who reported their nurses Always communicated well," and "Patients who gave their hospital a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)."

Of the 126 hospitals in The Tarheel State, only 10 earned five stars, Dosher and 22 others earned four, and the rest scored three stars or fewer.

"Big thanks to the entire hospital staff for providing consistent, high-quality care to patients every day," CEO Tom Siemers says.

Read more on the hospital rankings on the CMS website: medicare.gov/hospitalcompare.