Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Arizona with the lowest pneumonia death rate
66 Arizona hospitals ranked by pneumonia death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. 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% | ||
| T50 | Banner Estrella Medical Center | 16.8%, 26th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 8.9%, 87th percentile | 7.0%, 88th percentile | 3.2%, 14th percentile | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Banner Estrella Medical Center |
| 52 | White Mountain Regional Medical Center | 16.9%, 25th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare White Mountain Regional Medical Center |
| T53 | Northwest Medical Center | 17.0%, 24th percentile | 13.6%, 7th percentile | 13.9%, 8th percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | 1.7%, 89th percentile | 14.3%, 16th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Northwest Medical Center |
| T53 | Sage Memorial Hospital | 17.0%, 24th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Sage Memorial Hospital |
| 55 | Banner Thunderbird Medical Center | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 14.1%, 3rd percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | Compare Banner Thunderbird Medical Center |
| 56 | Yuma Regional Medical Center | 17.2%, 21st percentile | 13.4%, 9th percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 11.8%, 3rd percentile | 4.0%, 4th percentile | 16.0%, 8th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Yuma Regional Medical Center |
| T57 | Flagstaff Medical Center | 17.5%, 18th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 7.2%, 98th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 10.0%, 81st percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Flagstaff Medical Center |
| T57 | Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center | 17.5%, 18th percentile | 12.1%, 38th percentile | 10.9%, 52nd percentile | 9.9%, 16th percentile | — | 13.9%, 19th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center |
| 59 | Tucson Medical Center | 18.0%, 14th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 13.3%, 12th percentile | 10.6%, 9th percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 12.9%, 30th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Tucson Medical Center |
| T60 | Verde Valley Medical Center | 18.1%, 13th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | — | 11.3%, 56th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Verde Valley Medical Center |
| T60 | Little Colorado Medical Center | 18.1%, 13th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Little Colorado Medical Center |
| 62 | St Joseph's Hospital | 18.2%, 13th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 11.3%, 44th percentile | 10.3%, 11th percentile | — | 12.0%, 44th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare St Joseph's Hospital |
| 63 | Banner Desert Medical Center | 18.6%, 10th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 10.8%, 54th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | 2.6%, 33rd percentile | 12.1%, 42nd percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Banner Desert Medical Center |
| 64 | Western Arizona Regional Medical Center | 18.8%, 9th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 9.9%, 72nd percentile | 12.4%, 1st percentile | — | 14.1%, 17th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Western Arizona Regional Medical Center |
| 65 | Banner Boswell Medical Center | 19.5%, 6th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare Banner Boswell Medical Center |
| 66 | Banner Baywood Medical Center | 19.7%, 5th percentile | — | 12.1%, 28th percentile | 9.2%, 31st percentile | — | 12.2%, 40th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Banner Baywood 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.
- 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.