Lucas County Health Center in Chariton, IA is in Lucas County, IA, is better than the national rate of hospital return days for pneumonia patients, provides emergency services, meets criteria for promoting interoperability of Electronic Health Records, is critical access, is voluntary non-profit (other), is better than the national patient-care averages in timeliness of care, and is better than the nationwide emergency department averages in both admit decision to inpatient admission and arrival to discharge.

Numeric values:
- median time from admit decision to time of departure from the emergency department for patients admitted to inpatient status (29 mins)
- median time from emergency department arrival to emergency department departure for discharged patients (106 mins)