Hospital rankings
Top-rated hospitals in Minnesota
56 Minnesota hospitals ranked by overall star rating in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | 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 | Serious complicationslower is better | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
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| National average | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| T36 | Centracare- Rice Memorial Hospital | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | 0.99, 37th percentile | 146 min, 52nd percentile | 0.85, 95th percentile | 136 | Compare Centracare- Rice Memorial Hospital |
| T36 | Hennepin County Medical Center | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 9.5%, 79th percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | 1.11, 18th percentile | 235 min, 7th percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 894 | Compare Hennepin County Medical Center |
| T53 | Mayo Clinic Health System New Prague | 2, 17th percentile | 5, 97th percentile | — | 9.8%, 73rd percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | — | 117 min, 77th percentile | — | 25 | Compare Mayo Clinic Health System New Prague |
| T53 | Winona Health Services | 2, 17th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 15.2%, 3rd percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | 1.02, 31st percentile | 142 min, 55th percentile | 0.86, 94th percentile | 57 | Compare Winona Health Services |
| T53 | Olivia Hospital & Clinic | 2, 17th percentile | — | — | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | — | 124 min, 71st percentile | — | 16 | Compare Olivia Hospital & Clinic |
| 56 | North Memorial Health Hospital | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | 1.18, 12th percentile | 204 min, 17th percentile | 0.93, 80th percentile | 518 | Compare North Memorial Health 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.
- 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.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- 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).