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Two or three providers side by side, across the public record: licensing, ratings, inspections, penalties, staffing, ownership, and what care costs locally. Where no agency publishes a figure for a kind of provider, the cell says so rather than sitting empty next to a number and reading like a low score.
Mercy Hospital Springfield vs. Cox Medical Centers
Care types
What each provider is licensed or certified to deliver. Different care types answer to different regulators, which is why the rows below are not always comparable.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Hospitals
Cox Medical Centers
Hospitals
Licensed capacity
Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no licensed capacity for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Not establishedThe roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.
Cox Medical Centers
Not establishedThe roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.
License status
The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no license status for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Not establishedMissouri's roster carries no status word for this license in the file we read. That is a gap in the file, not a lapsed license.
Cox Medical Centers
Not establishedMissouri's roster carries no status word for this license in the file we read. That is a gap in the file, not a lapsed license.
Published rating
Whatever the publishing regulator published, on the scale the regulator used. Nothing here is rescaled to five stars.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
3.0Published for 2026-04-28
Cox Medical Centers
3.0Published for 2026-04-28
Inspection citations
How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no inspection citations for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Not establishedWe don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.
Cox Medical Centers
Not establishedWe don't have inspection reports for this provider yet. The state licensing agency can share its latest ones.
Fines and payment denials
Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.
Not a like-for-like comparison. No public system publishes fines and payment denials for either of these providers, so there is nothing to compare here for either one.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Not comparableCMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no hospital appears in it.
Cox Medical Centers
Not comparableCMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no hospital appears in it.
Nurse staffing hours
Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.
Not a like-for-like comparison. No public system publishes nurse staffing hours for either of these providers, so there is nothing to compare here for either one.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for hospitals.
Cox Medical Centers
Not comparableStaffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for hospitals.
Ownership and chain
Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.
Not a like-for-like comparison. Both providers have ownership and chain on record, but the record for at least one of them may be incomplete. Read the smaller number as "at least this many", not a total.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Voluntary non-profit - Private
Cox Medical Centers
Voluntary non-profit - Private
Typical local cost
The published monthly median for this care type in this provider's city. A market figure, never a price quoted by this provider.
Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no typical local cost for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Springfield, MO yet.
Cox Medical Centers
Not establishedWe have not published a monthly median for this care type in Springfield, MO yet.
What the blank cells mean
- None on record.
- The public record covers this provider and lists nothing.
- Not comparable.
- No agency publishes this measure for this kind of provider. Shown hatched.
- Not established.
- We don't have this record for this provider yet.
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