Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Louisiana with the lowest pneumonia death rate
71 Louisiana hospitals ranked by pneumonia 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 | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure 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 | 15.2% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 51 | West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 11.7%, 35th percentile | 8.2%, 58th percentile | — | 14.2%, 16th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital |
| T52 | Citizens Medical Center | 17.2%, 21st percentile | — | 10.8%, 54th percentile | 8.6%, 46th percentile | — | — | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare Citizens Medical Center |
| T52 | Lane Regional Medical Center | 17.2%, 21st percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 14.2%, 7th percentile | — | — | 14.1%, 17th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Lane Regional Medical Center |
| T52 | Union General Hospital | 17.2%, 21st percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Union General Hospital |
| T55 | Abbeville General Hospital | 17.4%, 19th percentile | — | 12.6%, 20th percentile | — | — | — | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare Abbeville General Hospital |
| T55 | East Carroll Parish Hospital | 17.4%, 19th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare East Carroll Parish Hospital |
| 57 | Richland Parish Hospital-Delhi | 17.6%, 17th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Richland Parish Hospital-Delhi |
| T58 | Acadia General Hospital | 17.8%, 15th percentile | — | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 7.2%, 85th percentile | — | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Acadia General Hospital |
| T58 | Morehouse General Hospital | 17.8%, 15th percentile | — | 11.3%, 44th percentile | — | — | — | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Morehouse General Hospital |
| 60 | Lasalle General Hospital | 17.9%, 15th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Lasalle General Hospital |
| 61 | Our Lady Of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Inc | 18.0%, 14th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 11.4%, 41st percentile | 9.6%, 22nd percentile | 3.3%, 12th percentile | 14.2%, 16th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Our Lady Of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Inc |
| 62 | Opelousas General Health System | 18.1%, 13th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 16.1%, 1st percentile | 7.4%, 80th percentile | — | 22.5%, 1st percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Opelousas General Health System |
| 63 | Our Lady Of The Lake Regional Medical Center | 18.2%, 13th percentile | 13.5%, 8th percentile | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 10.8%, 8th percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 14.4%, 15th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Our Lady Of The Lake Regional Medical Center |
| T64 | Desoto Regional Health System | 18.3%, 12th percentile | — | 11.0%, 50th percentile | — | — | — | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare Desoto Regional Health System |
| T64 | Ochsner St Mary | 18.3%, 12th percentile | — | 9.9%, 72nd percentile | 10.1%, 14th percentile | — | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Ochsner St Mary |
| 66 | Natchitoches Regional Medical Center | 19.0%, 8th percentile | — | 10.4%, 62nd percentile | — | — | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Natchitoches Regional Medical Center |
| 67 | Mercy Regional Medical Center | 19.1%, 8th percentile | — | 12.8%, 18th percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | — | 16.7%, 6th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Mercy Regional Medical Center |
| 68 | Winn Parish Medical Center | 20.0%, 4th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Winn Parish Medical Center |
| 69 | Thibodaux Regional Medical Center | 20.3%, 4th percentile | 14.8%, 1st percentile | 13.3%, 12th percentile | 10.7%, 8th percentile | 3.1%, 16th percentile | 16.6%, 6th percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare Thibodaux Regional Medical Center |
| 70 | Avoyelles Hospital | 20.4%, 4th percentile | — | 14.4%, 6th percentile | — | — | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Avoyelles Hospital |
| 71 | Sabine Medical Center | 21.0%, 2nd percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Sabine 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.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia 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.
- 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.