Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Arkansas with the lowest pneumonia death rate
57 Arkansas 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 | 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 | 15.2% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| T50 | Northwest Medical Center-Springdale | 18.3%, 12th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 13.6%, 10th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 0.93, 63rd percentile | 126 min, 69th percentile | 1.01, 38th percentile | 414 | Compare Northwest Medical Center-Springdale |
| 52 | National Park Medical Center | 18.4%, 11th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 13.8%, 5th percentile | 13.1%, 14th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | 1.07, 23rd percentile | 153 min, 47th percentile | 1.18, 2nd percentile | 161 | Compare National Park Medical Center |
| 53 | St Bernards Medical Center | 18.5%, 11th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 14.4%, 2nd percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | 3.16, 0th percentile | 211 min, 14th percentile | 1.06, 16th percentile | 440 | Compare St Bernards Medical Center |
| 54 | Baptist Health Medical Center North Little Rock | 18.9%, 9th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | 0.94, 59th percentile | 186 min, 26th percentile | 1.05, 19th percentile | 225 | Compare Baptist Health Medical Center North Little Rock |
| 55 | South Arkansas Regional Hospital LLC | 20.0%, 4th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 13.7%, 6th percentile | 16.7%, 1st percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | 0.89, 75th percentile | 102 min, 89th percentile | 1.10, 8th percentile | 149 | Compare South Arkansas Regional Hospital LLC |
| 56 | Chicot Memorial Medical Center | 20.4%, 4th percentile | — | — | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | — | 102 min, 89th percentile | — | 25 | Compare Chicot Memorial Medical Center |
| 57 | North Arkansas Regional Medical Center | 23.8%, 0th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 12.6%, 20th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | 1.04, 28th percentile | 149 min, 50th percentile | 1.03, 28th percentile | 174 | Compare North Arkansas Regional 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.
- 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).