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 | 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 | Northwest Medical Center-Springdale | 18.3%, 12th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 13.6%, 10th percentile | 9.7%, 20th percentile | — | 16.2%, 7th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Northwest Medical Center-Springdale |
| 52 | National Park Medical Center | 18.4%, 11th percentile | 13.8%, 5th percentile | 13.1%, 14th percentile | 11.0%, 6th percentile | 3.8%, 5th percentile | 19.4%, 2nd percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare National Park Medical Center |
| 53 | St Bernards Medical Center | 18.5%, 11th percentile | 14.4%, 2nd percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 12.8%, 1st percentile | 4.0%, 4th percentile | 13.7%, 21st percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare St Bernards Medical Center |
| 54 | Baptist Health Medical Center North Little Rock | 18.9%, 9th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | — | 14.2%, 16th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Baptist Health Medical Center North Little Rock |
| 55 | South Arkansas Regional Hospital LLC | 20.0%, 4th percentile | 13.7%, 6th percentile | 16.7%, 1st percentile | 7.6%, 75th percentile | — | 20.6%, 2nd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare South Arkansas Regional Hospital LLC |
| 56 | Chicot Memorial Medical Center | 20.4%, 4th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Chicot Memorial Medical Center |
| 57 | North Arkansas Regional Medical Center | 23.8%, 0th percentile | — | 12.6%, 20th percentile | 11.7%, 3rd percentile | — | 18.7%, 3rd percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | 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.
- 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.