Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Alaska with the lowest heart failure death rate
10 Alaska hospitals ranked by heart failure death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Providence Alaska Medical Center, PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center, Bartlett Regional Hospital. 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 |
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| National average | 11.1% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Providence Alaska Medical Center | 9.7%, 75th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 10.1%, 14th percentile | 2.9%, 22nd percentile | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | Compare Providence Alaska Medical Center |
| 2 | PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center | 10.2%, 66th percentile | — | 12.9%, 83rd percentile | — | — | — | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center |
| 3 | Bartlett Regional Hospital | 10.4%, 62nd percentile | — | 12.2%, 90th percentile | 7.2%, 85th percentile | — | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Bartlett Regional Hospital |
| T4 | Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital | 10.6%, 58th percentile | — | 13.8%, 72nd percentile | — | — | — | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital |
| T4 | Alaska Regional Hospital | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 13.3%, 10th percentile | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 15.4%, 10th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Alaska Regional Hospital |
| 6 | Central Peninsula General Hospital | 11.1%, 48th percentile | — | 15.1%, 51st percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Central Peninsula General Hospital |
| 7 | Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | — | 13.9%, 70th percentile | 9.2%, 31st percentile | — | — | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium |
| 8 | Alaska Native Medical Center | 13.1%, 14th percentile | 11.3%, 68th percentile | 13.4%, 77th percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | — | 11.5%, 53rd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Alaska Native Medical Center |
| 9 | Mat-Su Regional Medical Center | 15.3%, 3rd percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 16.1%, 36th percentile | 12.9%, 1st percentile | — | 13.5%, 23rd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Mat-Su Regional Medical Center |
| 10 | Fairbanks Memorial Hospital | 15.7%, 2nd percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 18.7%, 10th percentile | 12.0%, 2nd percentile | — | 9.1%, 92nd percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Fairbanks Memorial 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.