Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Kansas with the lowest heart failure death rate
52 Kansas hospitals ranked by heart failure 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 failure death ratelower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.1% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | Salina Regional Health Center | 16.5%, 1st percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 14.5%, 2nd percentile | 13.2%, 99th percentile | 1.16, 13th percentile | 140 min, 56th percentile | 1.05, 19th percentile | 396 | Compare Salina Regional Health Center |
| 52 | Clara Barton Hospital | 17.3%, 1st percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 15.2%, 34th percentile | — | 136 min, 60th percentile | — | 25 | Compare Clara Barton 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.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack 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).