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 | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Pneumonia 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 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| T151 | Clovis Community Medical Center | 13.4%, 9th percentile | 14.0%, 8th percentile | 17.6%, 17th percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | 2.4%, 44th percentile | 9.6%, 86th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Clovis Community Medical Center |
| T151 | AHMC Seton Medical Center | 13.4%, 9th percentile | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 18.9%, 9th percentile | 7.9%, 66th percentile | — | 13.9%, 19th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare AHMC Seton Medical Center |
| 153 | Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital | 13.8%, 5th percentile | 10.1%, 68th percentile | 17.2%, 21st percentile | 7.9%, 66th percentile | 3.9%, 5th percentile | 14.3%, 16th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital |
| T154 | St Joseph's Medical Center Of Stockton | 13.9%, 4th percentile | 12.2%, 27th percentile | 18.4%, 11th percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | 2.4%, 44th percentile | 9.0%, 93rd percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare St Joseph's Medical Center Of Stockton |
| T154 | Desert Regional Medical Center | 13.9%, 4th percentile | 13.9%, 8th percentile | 16.7%, 27th percentile | 10.6%, 9th percentile | — | 13.7%, 21st percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Desert Regional Medical Center |
| T156 | Memorial Medical Center | 14.1%, 3rd percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 12.4%, 88th percentile | 6.2%, 97th percentile | 3.2%, 14th percentile | 9.3%, 90th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Memorial Medical Center |
| T156 | UCI Health - Los Alamitos | 14.1%, 3rd percentile | 9.7%, 75th percentile | 13.8%, 72nd percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | — | 10.9%, 64th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare UCI Health - Los Alamitos |
| 158 | Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | 14.2%, 3rd percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 18.2%, 13th percentile | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 3.4%, 9th percentile | 11.3%, 56th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Bakersfield Memorial Hospital |
| 159 | USC Arcadia Hospital | 14.3%, 2nd percentile | 9.6%, 77th percentile | 13.4%, 77th percentile | 6.6%, 94th percentile | 1.8%, 85th percentile | 10.9%, 64th percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | Compare USC Arcadia Hospital |
| 160 | Mercy San Juan Medical Center | 14.6%, 1st percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 13.7%, 73rd percentile | 9.6%, 22nd percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 12.2%, 40th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Mercy San Juan Medical Center |
| 161 | Doctors Medical Center | 15.2%, 0th percentile | 12.8%, 18th percentile | 16.2%, 35th percentile | 10.1%, 14th percentile | 4.1%, 3rd percentile | 12.9%, 30th percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | Compare Doctors Medical Center |
| 162 | Marian Regional Medical Center | 15.9%, 0th percentile | 10.7%, 56th percentile | 15.4%, 46th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | 3.7%, 6th percentile | 10.5%, 71st percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | 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.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia 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.