Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Alabama with the lowest heart failure death rate
54 Alabama hospitals ranked by heart failure death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | COPD death ratelower is better | CABG surgery death ratelower is better | Stroke death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.1% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 51 | DeKalb Regional Medical Center | 14.6%, 5th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 22.9%, 1st percentile | 10.6%, 9th percentile | — | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare DeKalb Regional Medical Center |
| 52 | Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center | 14.7%, 5th percentile | 14.4%, 2nd percentile | 18.5%, 11th percentile | 8.7%, 43rd percentile | — | 18.5%, 3rd percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center |
| 53 | Decatur Morgan Hospital - Decatur Campus | 14.8%, 4th percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 16.2%, 35th percentile | 7.4%, 80th percentile | — | 17.4%, 4th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Decatur Morgan Hospital - Decatur Campus |
| 54 | Helen Keller Hospital | 17.8%, 0th percentile | — | 14.6%, 60th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | — | 21.9%, 1st percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | Compare Helen Keller Hospital |
About these rankings
Rankings use the 2026 release of CMS Care Compare data. Hospitals share a rank (“T”) when their values are equal, and only hospitals with a reported value for the sorted measure are ranked. Shading compares each value with every hospital in the country, so it doesn’t change with your filters. Small differences are often not statistically meaningful; use the methodology and glossary for context.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD patients.
- CABG surgery death rate
- 30-day death rate for CABG surgery patients.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke patients.
- Hospital-wide readmission rate
- Rate of unplanned readmission within 30 days, all conditions. From 2025 CMS reports the Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission measure (claims plus EHR data), which replaced the claims-only measure; values are close but not strictly comparable across the change. CMS suppressed it for 2026.. Latest available: 2025 release.