Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Kentucky with the lowest heart failure death rate
62 Kentucky 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 | 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% | ||
| T50 | Harrison Memorial Hospital | 13.5%, 11th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 20.6%, 3rd percentile | 9.6%, 22nd percentile | — | — | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Harrison Memorial Hospital |
| 52 | Baptist Health Hardin | 13.7%, 10th percentile | 14.3%, 2nd percentile | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | — | 11.1%, 60th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Baptist Health Hardin |
| T53 | T J Samson Community Hospital | 13.8%, 9th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 18.7%, 10th percentile | 11.7%, 3rd percentile | — | 16.7%, 6th percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | Compare T J Samson Community Hospital |
| T53 | Harlan ARH Hospital | 13.8%, 9th percentile | — | 17.9%, 15th percentile | 7.9%, 66th percentile | — | — | 16.5%, 3rd percentile | Compare Harlan ARH Hospital |
| 55 | Three Rivers Medical Center | 13.9%, 8th percentile | — | 19.0%, 8th percentile | — | — | — | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Three Rivers Medical Center |
| T56 | Livingston Hospital And Healthcare Services, Inc | 14.0%, 8th percentile | — | 17.3%, 20th percentile | — | — | — | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare Livingston Hospital And Healthcare Services, Inc |
| T56 | Murray-Calloway County Hospital | 14.0%, 8th percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 19.8%, 5th percentile | 8.9%, 38th percentile | — | 10.7%, 68th percentile | 16.4%, 3rd percentile | Compare Murray-Calloway County Hospital |
| T56 | Paintsville ARH Hospital | 14.0%, 8th percentile | — | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 9.9%, 16th percentile | — | — | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Paintsville ARH Hospital |
| 59 | The Medical Center (Bowling Green) | 14.3%, 6th percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 18.6%, 10th percentile | 12.2%, 2nd percentile | 3.3%, 12th percentile | 15.8%, 9th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare The Medical Center (Bowling Green) |
| 60 | Middlesboro ARH Hospital | 14.8%, 4th percentile | — | 25.6%, 0th percentile | — | — | — | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare Middlesboro ARH Hospital |
| 61 | Jennie Stuart Medical Center | 17.5%, 0th percentile | — | 21.4%, 2nd percentile | 11.4%, 4th percentile | — | 15.0%, 12th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Jennie Stuart Medical Center |
| 62 | Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville | 19.7%, 0th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 18.9%, 9th percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 10.9%, 64th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville |
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.