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West Boca Medical Center is a for-profit proprietary hospital located in Boca Raton, FL, holding CMS certification number 100268. The Palm Beach covers Boca Raton-area healthcare news, including major facility changes, regulatory ratings, and service-line developments at West Boca Medical Center.
As an acute-care hospital, West Boca Medical Center 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 West Boca Medical Center 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 Palm Beach 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 Boca Raton residents, West Boca Medical Center is one of the hospital options to weigh when choosing emergency care, surgical care, or specialty services. The Palm Beach regularly reports on hospital expansions, closures, leadership changes, and major regulatory actions affecting Boca Raton-area healthcare facilities — including West Boca Medical Center.
Story tip about West Boca Medical Center? Email editor@nexcom.media. For more healthcare coverage, visit thepalmbeach.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 Palm Beach covers Boca Raton-area healthcare — hospital changes, regulatory ratings, leadership transitions, expansions. See our latest at thepalmbeach.org/news or browse all hospitals at thepalmbeach.org/hospitals.
Data source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Provider Data Catalog · Hospital General Information dataset (xubh-q36u) · Medicare.gov canonical page ↗. Updated 2026-05-22.