Critical Access hospitals in Maine

Critical Access hospitals › Maine

Maine has 18 Critical Access hospitals. 18 of them have an emergency department. Across those that report it, the median emergency department visit lasts 2 hr 20 min.

A Critical Access Hospital is a Medicare designation for a small rural hospital. To qualify, a hospital keeps no more than 25 inpatient beds, sits a set distance from the next nearest hospital, keeps an average inpatient stay of 96 hours or less, and provides emergency care 24 hours a day. The designation exists to keep emergency care within reach in places too small to support a full general hospital, and it changes how Medicare pays them.

Hospital	City	ER wait	CMS rating
Mount Desert Island Hospital	Bar Harbor	2 hr 10 min	—
Waldo County General Hospital	Belfast	2 hr 32 min	3/5
Blue Hill Memorial Hospital	Blue Hill	1 hr 58 min	—
St Andrews Hospital	Boothbay Harbor	2 hr 24 min	3/5
Bridgton Hospital	Bridgton	1 hr 58 min	3/5
Calais Regional Hospital	Calais	2 hr 34 min	—
Mayo Regional Hospital	Dover Foxcroft	2 hr 24 min	2/5
Mainehealth Franklin Hospital	Farmington	2 hr 50 min	3/5
Northern Maine Medical Center	Fort Kent	2 hr 20 min	—
Charles a Dean Memorial Hospital	Greenville	1 hr 26 min	—
Houlton Regional Hospital	Houlton	3 hr 14 min	3/5
Penobscot Valley Hospital	Lincoln	2 hr 7 min	—
Down East Community Hospital	Machias	3 hr 15 min	4/5
Millinocket Regional Hospital	Millinocket	not reported	—
Mainehealth Stephens Hospital	Norway	2 hr 5 min	4/5
Sebasticook Valley Hospital	Pittsfield	3 hr 7 min	2/5
Rumford Hospital	Rumford	1 hr 44 min	—
Redington Fairview General Hospital	Skowhegan	2 hr 8 min	2/5

Designation from the CMS Hospital General Information dataset. Data published July 2026. See all hospitals in Maine, or Critical Access hospitals in other states. How this data works.