Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Georgia with the lowest heart attack death rate
58 Georgia 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 | ||||
| T51 | Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | 13.6%, 7th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 0.94, 59th percentile | 184 min, 27th percentile | 1.01, 38th percentile | 200 | Compare Piedmont Eastside Medical Center |
| T51 | Upson Regional Medical Center | 13.6%, 7th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 19.6%, 0th percentile | 16.4%, 3rd percentile | 1.04, 28th percentile | 174 min, 33rd percentile | 1.02, 33rd percentile | 119 | Compare Upson Regional Medical Center |
| 53 | Northside Hospital Forsyth | 13.9%, 4th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 9.2%, 84th percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | 1.11, 18th percentile | 170 min, 35th percentile | 0.96, 66th percentile | 389 | Compare Northside Hospital Forsyth |
| 54 | Colquitt Regional Medical Center | 14.1%, 3rd percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 11.4%, 41st percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | 0.89, 75th percentile | 173 min, 34th percentile | 0.91, 86th percentile | 99 | Compare Colquitt Regional Medical Center |
| 55 | St Mary's Hospital | 14.3%, 2nd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 1.47, 3rd percentile | 130 min, 65th percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 196 | Compare St Mary's Hospital |
| T56 | Fairview Park Hospital | 14.5%, 2nd percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 10.7%, 56th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | 0.87, 81st percentile | 138 min, 58th percentile | 0.96, 66th percentile | 185 | Compare Fairview Park Hospital |
| T56 | St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | 14.5%, 2nd percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 14.8%, 4th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | 2.17, 0th percentile | 203 min, 18th percentile | 1.05, 19th percentile | 294 | Compare St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah |
| 58 | Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center | 14.8%, 1st percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 9.9%, 72nd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | 1.04, 28th percentile | 182 min, 28th percentile | 1.01, 38th percentile | 637 | Compare Atrium Health Navicent The 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).