Hospital rankings
Hospitals in California with the lowest heart attack death rate
162 California hospitals ranked by heart attack 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 | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher 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 | 11.9% | 3.3 | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| T151 | Clovis Community Medical Center | 13.4%, 9th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 14.0%, 8th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | 1.16, 13th percentile | 242 min, 6th percentile | 1.05, 19th percentile | 352 | Compare Clovis Community Medical Center |
| T151 | AHMC Seton Medical Center | 13.4%, 9th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | 0.91, 70th percentile | 210 min, 15th percentile | 1.01, 38th percentile | 191 | Compare AHMC Seton Medical Center |
| 153 | Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital | 13.8%, 5th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 10.1%, 68th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | 0.85, 85th percentile | 190 min, 24th percentile | 1.18, 2nd percentile | 193 | Compare Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital |
| T154 | St Joseph's Medical Center Of Stockton | 13.9%, 4th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.2%, 27th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | 1.06, 25th percentile | 225 min, 10th percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 335 | Compare St Joseph's Medical Center Of Stockton |
| T154 | Desert Regional Medical Center | 13.9%, 4th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 13.9%, 8th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | 0.77, 95th percentile | 178 min, 31st percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 385 | Compare Desert Regional Medical Center |
| T156 | Memorial Medical Center | 14.1%, 3rd percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | 1.02, 31st percentile | 258 min, 4th percentile | 0.96, 66th percentile | 275 | Compare Memorial Medical Center |
| T156 | UCI Health - Los Alamitos | 14.1%, 3rd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | — | 9.7%, 75th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | 1.19, 11th percentile | 238 min, 7th percentile | 1.03, 28th percentile | — | Compare UCI Health - Los Alamitos |
| 158 | Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | 14.2%, 3rd percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | 0.88, 78th percentile | 240 min, 6th percentile | 1.05, 19th percentile | 421 | Compare Bakersfield Memorial Hospital |
| 159 | USC Arcadia Hospital | 14.3%, 2nd percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 9.6%, 77th percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | 1.27, 7th percentile | 258 min, 4th percentile | 1.13, 5th percentile | 374 | Compare USC Arcadia Hospital |
| 160 | Mercy San Juan Medical Center | 14.6%, 1st percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | 0.77, 95th percentile | 197 min, 20th percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 370 | Compare Mercy San Juan Medical Center |
| 161 | Doctors Medical Center | 15.2%, 0th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.8%, 18th percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | 1.36, 5th percentile | 221 min, 11th percentile | 1.03, 28th percentile | 461 | Compare Doctors Medical Center |
| 162 | Marian Regional Medical Center | 15.9%, 0th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 10.7%, 56th percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | 0.67, 99th percentile | 175 min, 32nd percentile | 0.94, 76th percentile | 227 | Compare Marian 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.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- 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).