Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Alaska with the lowest stroke death rate
6 Alaska hospitals ranked by stroke death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center, Alaska Native Medical Center. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Stroke death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | COPD death ratelower is better | CABG surgery death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
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| National average | 11.9% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Fairbanks Memorial Hospital | 9.1%, 92nd percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 15.7%, 2nd percentile | 18.7%, 10th percentile | 12.0%, 2nd percentile | — | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Fairbanks Memorial Hospital |
| 2 | Providence Alaska Medical Center | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 9.7%, 75th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 10.1%, 14th percentile | 2.9%, 22nd percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | Compare Providence Alaska Medical Center |
| 3 | Alaska Native Medical Center | 11.5%, 53rd percentile | 11.3%, 68th percentile | 13.1%, 14th percentile | 13.4%, 77th percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | — | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Alaska Native Medical Center |
| 4 | Central Peninsula General Hospital | 11.9%, 45th percentile | — | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 15.1%, 51st percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Central Peninsula General Hospital |
| 5 | Mat-Su Regional Medical Center | 13.5%, 23rd percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 15.3%, 3rd percentile | 16.1%, 36th percentile | 12.9%, 1st percentile | — | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Mat-Su Regional Medical Center |
| 6 | Alaska Regional Hospital | 15.4%, 10th percentile | 13.3%, 10th percentile | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Alaska Regional 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.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke 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.
- 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.
- 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.