Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Idaho with the lowest heart failure death rate
19 Idaho hospitals ranked by heart failure death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Steele Memorial Medical Center, Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Nampa, St Luke's Wood River Medical Center. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Heart attack 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 | 11.1% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Steele Memorial Medical Center | 9.2%, 84th percentile | — | 13.9%, 70th percentile | 7.4%, 80th percentile | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Steele Memorial Medical Center |
| 2 | Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Nampa | 9.3%, 82nd percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 13.8%, 72nd percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 18.6%, 3rd percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Nampa |
| 3 | St Luke's Wood River Medical Center | 10.4%, 62nd percentile | — | 15.0%, 52nd percentile | — | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare St Luke's Wood River Medical Center |
| 4 | Boise VA Medical Center | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 9.8%, 99th percentile | 9.5%, 24th percentile | — | — | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Boise VA Medical Center |
| 5 | Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 17.2%, 21st percentile | 10.9%, 7th percentile | 3.8%, 5th percentile | 14.2%, 16th percentile | 12.9%, 100th percentile | Compare Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center |
| 6 | West Valley Medical Center | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | — | 12.6%, 86th percentile | — | — | 12.0%, 44th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare West Valley Medical Center |
| 7 | Cassia Regional Hospital | 12.3%, 25th percentile | — | 16.5%, 30th percentile | — | — | — | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare Cassia Regional Hospital |
| 8 | Gritman Medical Center | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | — | 15.7%, 42nd percentile | — | — | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Gritman Medical Center |
| T9 | Portneuf Medical Center | 12.6%, 20th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 16.8%, 26th percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 9.9%, 82nd percentile | 13.8%, 96th percentile | Compare Portneuf Medical Center |
| T9 | Franklin County Medical Center | 12.6%, 20th percentile | — | 18.3%, 12th percentile | — | — | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Franklin County Medical Center |
| 11 | St Luke's Nampa Medical Center | 13.2%, 13th percentile | — | 13.4%, 77th percentile | 8.3%, 54th percentile | — | 7.6%, 99th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare St Luke's Nampa Medical Center |
| 12 | Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center | 13.5%, 11th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 16.4%, 31st percentile | 10.5%, 10th percentile | 3.1%, 16th percentile | 13.4%, 24th percentile | 13.8%, 96th percentile | Compare Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center |
| 13 | Bonner General Hospital | 14.1%, 7th percentile | — | 20.3%, 4th percentile | 9.7%, 20th percentile | — | 19.2%, 3rd percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Bonner General Hospital |
| 14 | Idaho Falls Community Hospital, LLC | 14.3%, 6th percentile | — | 14.0%, 69th percentile | 10.8%, 8th percentile | — | 25.0%, 1st percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Idaho Falls Community Hospital, LLC |
| 15 | Kootenai Health | 14.6%, 5th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 13.3%, 79th percentile | 12.0%, 2nd percentile | 2.8%, 24th percentile | 10.7%, 68th percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | Compare Kootenai Health |
| 16 | St Joseph Regional Medical Center | 14.9%, 4th percentile | 10.0%, 96th percentile | 20.3%, 4th percentile | 11.3%, 4th percentile | — | 19.2%, 3rd percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare St Joseph Regional Medical Center |
| 17 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center | 15.0%, 3rd percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 9.8%, 18th percentile | 2.7%, 28th percentile | 10.4%, 73rd percentile | 12.4%, 100th percentile | Compare St Luke's Regional Medical Center |
| 18 | St Lukes Magic Valley Medical Center | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | 13.4%, 9th percentile | 15.6%, 43rd percentile | 10.4%, 11th percentile | — | 12.7%, 33rd percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare St Lukes Magic Valley Medical Center |
| 19 | Clearwater Valley Hospital & Clinics | 15.5%, 2nd percentile | — | 17.9%, 15th percentile | 9.5%, 24th percentile | — | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Clearwater Valley Hospital & Clinics |
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 failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack 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.