Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Alaska with the lowest serious complications
7 Alaska hospitals ranked by serious complications in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, Alaska Regional Hospital. 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 | ||
| 1 | Fairbanks Memorial Hospital | 0.97, 46th percentile | — | 0.00, 88th percentile | 1.88, 7th percentile | — | — | 0.59, 18th percentile | Compare Fairbanks Memorial Hospital |
| 2 | Mat-Su Regional Medical Center | 1.00, 35th percentile | 0.00, 90th percentile | 0.00, 88th percentile | 0.00, 91st percentile | — | 0.00, 91st percentile | 0.09, 76th percentile | Compare Mat-Su Regional Medical Center |
| 3 | Alaska Regional Hospital | 1.02, 31st percentile | 1.28, 9th percentile | 0.86, 16th percentile | 0.84, 41st percentile | — | 0.00, 91st percentile | 0.24, 57th percentile | Compare Alaska Regional Hospital |
| 4 | Central Peninsula General Hospital | 1.09, 20th percentile | 0.00, 90th percentile | 6.51, 0th percentile | 0.86, 39th percentile | — | — | 0.85, 8th percentile | Compare Central Peninsula General Hospital |
| 5 | Bartlett Regional Hospital | 1.13, 16th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 0.00, 90th percentile | Compare Bartlett Regional Hospital |
| 6 | Providence Alaska Medical Center | 1.23, 9th percentile | 0.73, 29th percentile | 0.78, 21st percentile | 1.03, 30th percentile | 3.60, 2nd percentile | 0.61, 48th percentile | 0.48, 26th percentile | Compare Providence Alaska Medical Center |
| 7 | Alaska Native Medical Center | 1.67, 1st percentile | 1.34, 7th percentile | 0.27, 62nd percentile | 1.80, 8th percentile | — | 1.84, 4th percentile | 0.30, 48th percentile | Compare Alaska Native Medical Center |
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).