Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Alabama with the lowest serious complications
59 Alabama hospitals ranked by serious complications in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Serious complicationslower is better | Central line bloodstream infectionslower is better | Catheter-associated urinary tract infectionslower is better | Surgical site infections (colon)lower is better | Surgical site infections (hysterectomy)lower is better | MRSA bloodstream infectionslower is better | C. diff infectionslower is better | Compare |
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| National average | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| T50 | Clay County Hospital | 1.19, 11th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | Compare Clay County Hospital |
| 52 | St Vincent's Chilton | 1.20, 10th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 0.00, 90th percentile | Compare St Vincent's Chilton |
| 53 | Princeton Baptist Medical Center | 1.23, 9th percentile | 0.10, 78th percentile | 0.44, 46th percentile | 0.40, 70th percentile | — | 0.96, 23rd percentile | 0.57, 19th percentile | Compare Princeton Baptist Medical Center |
| 54 | USA Health University Hospital | 1.33, 6th percentile | 1.03, 15th percentile | 0.30, 59th percentile | 0.47, 66th percentile | — | 2.19, 2nd percentile | 0.47, 27th percentile | Compare USA Health University Hospital |
| T55 | Shelby Baptist Medical Center | 1.45, 3rd percentile | 0.87, 21st percentile | 0.32, 58th percentile | 0.47, 66th percentile | — | 1.03, 20th percentile | 0.45, 28th percentile | Compare Shelby Baptist Medical Center |
| T55 | Whitfield Regional Hospital | 1.45, 3rd percentile | — | 0.00, 88th percentile | — | — | — | 0.00, 90th percentile | Compare Whitfield Regional Hospital |
| 57 | Gadsden Regional Medical Center | 1.58, 2nd percentile | 0.61, 39th percentile | 0.33, 57th percentile | 0.00, 91st percentile | — | 0.00, 91st percentile | 0.06, 78th percentile | Compare Gadsden Regional Medical Center |
| 58 | Huntsville Hospital | 1.73, 1st percentile | 0.93, 19th percentile | 0.80, 20th percentile | 0.66, 54th percentile | 0.44, 73rd percentile | 1.12, 17th percentile | 0.27, 51st percentile | Compare Huntsville Hospital |
| 59 | Baptist Medical Center South | 1.98, 0th percentile | 0.67, 34th percentile | 1.12, 9th percentile | 0.95, 34th percentile | — | 1.02, 20th percentile | 0.60, 18th percentile | Compare Baptist Medical Center South |
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.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- Central line bloodstream infections
- Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in ICUs and select wards (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) in ICUs and select wards (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Surgical site infections (colon)
- Surgical site infections from colon surgery (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Surgical site infections (hysterectomy)
- Surgical site infections from abdominal hysterectomy (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- MRSA bloodstream infections
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood laboratory-identified events (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- C. diff infections
- Clostridium difficile (C. diff) intestinal infections (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).