Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Louisiana with the lowest heart failure death rate
58 Louisiana 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% | ||
| T49 | Minden Medical Center | 13.3%, 12th percentile | — | 16.9%, 25th percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | — | 12.4%, 37th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Minden Medical Center |
| T52 | North Oaks Medical Center | 13.4%, 12th percentile | 14.0%, 4th percentile | 16.4%, 31st percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 13.9%, 19th percentile | 16.8%, 1st percentile | Compare North Oaks Medical Center |
| T52 | Ochsner American Legion Hospital | 13.4%, 12th percentile | — | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 8.9%, 38th percentile | — | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Ochsner American Legion Hospital |
| 54 | Terrebonne General Medical Center - Parish | 13.6%, 10th percentile | 11.1%, 74th percentile | 15.8%, 40th percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | 3.2%, 14th percentile | 13.2%, 26th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Terrebonne General Medical Center - Parish |
| 55 | Lane Regional Medical Center | 14.2%, 7th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 17.2%, 21st percentile | — | — | 14.1%, 17th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Lane Regional Medical Center |
| 56 | Avoyelles Hospital | 14.4%, 6th percentile | — | 20.4%, 4th percentile | — | — | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Avoyelles Hospital |
| 57 | Opelousas General Health System | 16.1%, 1st percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 18.1%, 13th percentile | 7.4%, 80th percentile | — | 22.5%, 1st percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Opelousas General Health System |
| 58 | West Jefferson Medical Center | 16.2%, 1st percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 16.4%, 31st percentile | 10.8%, 8th percentile | — | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare West Jefferson 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.
- 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.