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 | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | CABG surgery death ratelower is better | Stroke death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 8.6% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| T51 | T J Samson Community Hospital | 11.7%, 3rd percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 13.8%, 9th percentile | 18.7%, 10th percentile | — | 16.7%, 6th percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | Compare T J Samson Community Hospital |
| T51 | Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital | 11.7%, 3rd percentile | 13.5%, 8th percentile | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 18.8%, 9th percentile | — | 14.2%, 16th percentile | 15.9%, 9th percentile | Compare Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital |
| 53 | Taylor Regional Hospital | 12.0%, 2nd percentile | — | 12.1%, 28th percentile | 14.1%, 67th percentile | — | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Taylor Regional Hospital |
| 54 | The Medical Center (Bowling Green) | 12.2%, 2nd percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 14.3%, 6th percentile | 18.6%, 10th percentile | 3.3%, 12th percentile | 15.8%, 9th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | 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.
- 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.
- 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.