Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Maine with the lowest heart attack death rate
12 Maine hospitals ranked by heart attack death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Central Maine Medical Center, York Hospital, Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure 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 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Central Maine Medical Center | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 17.7%, 16th percentile | 8.2%, 58th percentile | 2.6%, 33rd percentile | 12.8%, 31st percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Central Maine Medical Center |
| 2 | York Hospital | 11.3%, 68th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 16.9%, 25th percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | — | 12.5%, 36th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare York Hospital |
| 3 | Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 11.2%, 46th percentile | 15.3%, 48th percentile | 9.5%, 24th percentile | — | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital |
| 4 | Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 11.4%, 41st percentile | 15.1%, 51st percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 13.0%, 28th percentile | 13.4%, 98th percentile | Compare Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center |
| 5 | Mainehealth Pen Bay Hospital | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 11.4%, 41st percentile | 17.3%, 20th percentile | 12.2%, 2nd percentile | — | 11.5%, 53rd percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Mainehealth Pen Bay Hospital |
| 6 | Northern Maine Medical Center | 12.6%, 23rd percentile | 9.7%, 75th percentile | 15.9%, 39th percentile | 8.9%, 38th percentile | — | 25.7%, 1st percentile | — | Compare Northern Maine Medical Center |
| 7 | Maine General Medical Center | 12.7%, 21st percentile | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | 14.4%, 63rd percentile | 9.4%, 26th percentile | — | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Maine General Medical Center |
| 8 | Mainehealth Maine Medical Center | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 13.7%, 10th percentile | 15.1%, 51st percentile | 11.6%, 3rd percentile | 1.6%, 93rd percentile | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare Mainehealth Maine Medical Center |
| 9 | St Joseph Hospital | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 14.6%, 5th percentile | 15.4%, 46th percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | — | 12.2%, 40th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare St Joseph Hospital |
| 10 | Mainehealth Mid Coast Hospital | 13.7%, 6th percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 20.7%, 3rd percentile | 11.1%, 5th percentile | — | 12.5%, 36th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Mainehealth Mid Coast Hospital |
| 11 | Togus VA Medical Center | 13.8%, 5th percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 11.9%, 92nd percentile | 10.7%, 8th percentile | — | — | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Togus VA Medical Center |
| 12 | Millinocket Regional Hospital | 13.9%, 4th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Millinocket Regional Hospital |
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 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.
- 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.