Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Kentucky with the lowest serious complications
56 Kentucky hospitals ranked by serious complications in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Serious complicationslower 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 | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 1.00 | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | UofL Health - Jewish Hospital And Mary & Elizabeth Hospital | 1.26, 8th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 13.4%, 12th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | 138 min, 58th percentile | 1.01, 38th percentile | 1,261 | Compare UofL Health - Jewish Hospital And Mary & Elizabeth Hospital |
| 52 | Taylor Regional Hospital | 1.28, 7th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 12.1%, 28th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | 138 min, 58th percentile | 1.09, 10th percentile | 90 | Compare Taylor Regional Hospital |
| 53 | AdventHealthmanchester | 1.31, 6th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | 130 min, 65th percentile | 0.97, 61st percentile | 49 | Compare AdventHealthmanchester |
| 54 | Saint Joseph Hospital | 1.35, 5th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 13.2%, 11th percentile | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | 128 min, 67th percentile | 1.00, 44th percentile | 468 | Compare Saint Joseph Hospital |
| 55 | Baptist Health Paducah | 1.36, 5th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 12.7%, 19th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | 184 min, 27th percentile | 1.02, 33rd percentile | 349 | Compare Baptist Health Paducah |
| 56 | Pikeville Medical Center | 1.74, 1st percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 15.4%, 0th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | 226 min, 10th percentile | 0.95, 71st percentile | 340 | Compare Pikeville Medical Center |
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.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- 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.
- 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).