Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Arizona with the lowest hospital-acquired condition score
61 Arizona hospitals ranked by hospital-acquired condition score in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Hospital-acquired condition scorelower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Serious complicationslower is better | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
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| National average | 0.00 | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | Banner Desert Medical Center | +0.41, 24th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 10.8%, 54th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | 1.23, 9th percentile | 269 min, 3rd percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 595 | Compare Banner Desert Medical Center |
| 52 | Dignity Health Arizona General Hospital | +0.43, 23rd percentile | 5, 94th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 8.9%, 87th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | 0.98, 41st percentile | 92 min, 94th percentile | 0.94, 76th percentile | 50 | Compare Dignity Health Arizona General Hospital |
| 53 | Banner Casa Grande Medical Center | +0.44, 22nd percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 11.7%, 35th percentile | 16.6%, 2nd percentile | 1.14, 15th percentile | 174 min, 33rd percentile | 0.93, 80th percentile | 141 | Compare Banner Casa Grande Medical Center |
| 54 | Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix | +0.45, 22nd percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 8.2%, 93rd percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 1.30, 6th percentile | 266 min, 3rd percentile | 1.00, 44th percentile | 766 | Compare Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix |
| 55 | Tucson Medical Center | +0.56, 18th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 13.3%, 12th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | 1.30, 6th percentile | 202 min, 18th percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 596 | Compare Tucson Medical Center |
| 56 | Banner Boswell Medical Center | +0.66, 14th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | 1.41, 4th percentile | 224 min, 10th percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 434 | Compare Banner Boswell Medical Center |
| 57 | Banner Heart Hospital | +0.74, 12th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | 0.98, 41st percentile | — | 1.00, 44th percentile | 111 | Compare Banner Heart Hospital |
| 58 | Fort Defiance Indian Hospital | +0.99, 6th percentile | — | 3, 39th percentile | — | — | 16.5%, 3rd percentile | 0.97, 46th percentile | — | 0.72, 100th percentile | 70 | Compare Fort Defiance Indian Hospital |
| T59 | Exceptional Community Hospital Yuma | +2.17, 1st percentile | — | — | — | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | — | — | 0.98, 55th percentile | 9 | Compare Exceptional Community Hospital Yuma |
| T59 | Sells Hospital | +2.17, 1st percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | Compare Sells Hospital |
| 61 | East Valley ER & Hospital | +2.20, 0th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | Compare East Valley ER & 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.
- Hospital-acquired condition score
- Total score in the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, from patient safety events and infections (weighted z-scores; 0 is about average, higher is worse). Medicare cuts payments 1% for the worst-scoring quarter of hospitals..
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure 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.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- Time in emergency department
- Median time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving.
- Medicare spending per patient
- Medicare spending per beneficiary episode relative to the national median (1.0 = national median).
- Total beds
- Total beds reported to CMS (Provider of Services file).