Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Alaska with the lowest pneumonia death rate
14 Alaska hospitals ranked by pneumonia death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Bartlett Regional Hospital, PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center, Alaska Native Medical Center. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure 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 | 15.2% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Bartlett Regional Hospital | 12.2%, 90th percentile | — | 10.4%, 62nd percentile | 7.2%, 85th percentile | — | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Bartlett Regional Hospital |
| 2 | PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center | 12.9%, 83rd percentile | — | 10.2%, 66th percentile | — | — | — | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center |
| 3 | Alaska Native Medical Center | 13.4%, 77th percentile | 11.3%, 68th percentile | 13.1%, 14th percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | — | 11.5%, 53rd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Alaska Native Medical Center |
| 4 | Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital | 13.8%, 72nd percentile | — | 10.6%, 58th percentile | — | — | — | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital |
| 5 | Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium | 13.9%, 70th percentile | — | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 9.2%, 31st percentile | — | — | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium |
| 6 | Providence Alaska Medical Center | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 9.7%, 75th percentile | 10.1%, 14th percentile | 2.9%, 22nd percentile | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | Compare Providence Alaska Medical Center |
| 7 | Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center | 14.8%, 56th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center |
| T8 | Central Peninsula General Hospital | 15.1%, 51st percentile | — | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Central Peninsula General Hospital |
| T8 | Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital | 15.1%, 51st percentile | — | — | 7.1%, 87th percentile | — | — | 16.3%, 4th percentile | Compare Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital |
| 10 | Norton Sound Regional Hospital | 15.4%, 46th percentile | — | — | 8.9%, 38th percentile | — | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Norton Sound Regional Hospital |
| 11 | Mat-Su Regional Medical Center | 16.1%, 36th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 15.3%, 3rd percentile | 12.9%, 1st percentile | — | 13.5%, 23rd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Mat-Su Regional Medical Center |
| 12 | Alaska Regional Hospital | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 13.3%, 10th percentile | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 15.4%, 10th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Alaska Regional Hospital |
| 13 | South Peninsula Hospital | 18.0%, 14th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare South Peninsula Hospital |
| 14 | Fairbanks Memorial Hospital | 18.7%, 10th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 15.7%, 2nd 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.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure 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.