Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Massachusetts with the lowest heart failure death rate
53 Massachusetts 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.1% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 51 | Baystate Medical Center | 12.7%, 19th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 16.3%, 33rd percentile | 6.8%, 91st percentile | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 12.0%, 44th percentile | 16.4%, 3rd percentile | Compare Baystate Medical Center |
| 52 | The Cooley Dickinson Hospital Inc | 13.1%, 14th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 15.8%, 40th percentile | 8.1%, 61st percentile | — | 13.1%, 27th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare The Cooley Dickinson Hospital Inc |
| 53 | Baystate Franklin Medical Center | 13.2%, 13th percentile | — | 13.0%, 82nd percentile | 8.7%, 43rd percentile | — | 12.1%, 42nd percentile | 17.3%, 0th percentile | Compare Baystate Franklin 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.