Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Kentucky with the lowest COPD death rate
54 Kentucky hospitals ranked by COPD 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 | COPD death ratelower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack death ratelower 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 8.6% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| T51 | T J Samson Community Hospital | 11.7%, 3rd percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 13.8%, 9th percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | 1.00, 35th percentile | 194 min, 22nd percentile | 1.06, 16th percentile | 180 | Compare T J Samson Community Hospital |
| T51 | Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital | 11.7%, 3rd percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 13.5%, 8th percentile | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 15.9%, 9th percentile | 0.88, 78th percentile | 180 min, 29th percentile | 1.03, 28th percentile | 215 | Compare Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital |
| 53 | Taylor Regional Hospital | 12.0%, 2nd percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 12.1%, 28th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | 1.28, 7th percentile | 138 min, 58th percentile | 1.09, 10th percentile | 90 | Compare Taylor Regional Hospital |
| 54 | The Medical Center (Bowling Green) | 12.2%, 2nd percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 14.3%, 6th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | 1.08, 22nd percentile | 215 min, 13th percentile | 1.06, 16th percentile | 382 | Compare The Medical Center (Bowling Green) |
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.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD 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.
- 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).