Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Iowa with the lowest hospital-wide readmission rate
112 Iowa hospitals ranked by hospital-wide readmission rate in the 2025 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | 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 | Compare |
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| National average | 15.0% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | ||
| 101 | Kossuth Regional Health Center | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | — | 13.7%, 10th percentile | 19.3%, 7th percentile | 9.6%, 22nd percentile | — | — | Compare Kossuth Regional Health Center |
| T102 | Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton | 15.5%, 19th percentile | — | — | 19.0%, 8th percentile | — | — | — | Compare Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton |
| T102 | MercyOne Elkader Medical Center | 15.5%, 19th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | Compare MercyOne Elkader Medical Center |
| T102 | Shenandoah Medical Center | 15.5%, 19th percentile | — | — | 16.9%, 25th percentile | — | — | — | Compare Shenandoah Medical Center |
| T102 | Washington County Hospital And Clinics | 15.5%, 19th percentile | — | — | 15.4%, 46th percentile | 10.0%, 15th percentile | — | — | Compare Washington County Hospital And Clinics |
| T106 | Allen Hospital | 15.6%, 16th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 15.8%, 2nd percentile | 18.7%, 10th percentile | 10.8%, 8th percentile | 2.4%, 44th percentile | 12.4%, 37th percentile | Compare Allen Hospital |
| T106 | MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center | 15.6%, 16th percentile | 13.2%, 11th percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 10.3%, 11th percentile | — | 12.1%, 42nd percentile | Compare MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center |
| T106 | St Lukes Regional Medical Center | 15.6%, 16th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 13.0%, 1st percentile | — | 10.1%, 79th percentile | Compare St Lukes Regional Medical Center |
| T106 | Van Buren County Hospital | 15.6%, 16th percentile | — | — | 12.7%, 85th percentile | — | — | — | Compare Van Buren County Hospital |
| 110 | Genesis Medical Center-Davenport | 15.7%, 13th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 13.3%, 12th percentile | 15.6%, 43rd percentile | 7.8%, 69th percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 12.3%, 39th percentile | Compare Genesis Medical Center-Davenport |
| 111 | Methodist Jennie Edmundson | 15.8%, 11th percentile | 11.0%, 77th percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 15.0%, 52nd percentile | 8.1%, 61st percentile | — | 10.2%, 77th percentile | Compare Methodist Jennie Edmundson |
| 112 | Finley Hospital | 16.0%, 7th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 12.8%, 18th percentile | 17.3%, 20th percentile | 11.0%, 6th percentile | — | 12.7%, 33rd percentile | Compare Finley Hospital |
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.
- 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.
- 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.