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Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin is a nonprofit voluntary hospital located in Austin, TX, holding CMS certification number 450056. The Austin covers Austin-area healthcare news, including major facility changes, regulatory ratings, and service-line developments at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin.
As an acute-care hospital, Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin treats short-term, severe medical conditions including emergencies, surgeries, trauma, and critical illness. The facility operates a 24-hour emergency department.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) assigns Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin an overall quality rating of 3 out of 5 stars based on its most recent public reporting cycle. The CMS overall rating is a composite of mortality, safety, readmission, patient experience, effectiveness of care, timeliness of care, and efficient imaging measures. The Austin tracks rating changes year-over-year for every hospital in our coverage area; a one-star change typically reflects meaningful shifts in clinical performance.
For Austin residents, Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin is one of the hospital options to weigh when choosing emergency care, surgical care, or specialty services. The Austin regularly reports on hospital expansions, closures, leadership changes, and major regulatory actions affecting Austin-area healthcare facilities — including Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin.
Story tip about Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin? Email editor@nexcom.media. For more healthcare coverage, visit theaustin.org/news. This profile uses public data from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (Hospital General Information dataset) and is updated as CMS releases new reporting cycles.
The Austin covers Austin-area healthcare — hospital changes, regulatory ratings, leadership transitions, expansions. See our latest at theaustin.org/news or browse all hospitals at theaustin.org/hospitals.
Data source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Provider Data Catalog · Hospital General Information dataset (xubh-q36u) · Medicare.gov canonical page ↗. Updated 2026-07-21.
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