Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Montana with the lowest stroke death rate
11 Montana hospitals ranked by stroke death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital, St James Hospital, St. Patrick Hospital. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Stroke death ratelower is better | 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 | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
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| National average | 11.9% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital | 7.8%, 99th percentile | 10.3%, 92nd percentile | 9.6%, 77th percentile | 12.3%, 89th percentile | 7.6%, 75th percentile | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital |
| 2 | St James Hospital | 8.2%, 97th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 11.7%, 35th percentile | 16.3%, 33rd percentile | — | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare St James Hospital |
| 3 | St. Patrick Hospital | 10.0%, 81st percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 14.2%, 66th percentile | 7.3%, 83rd percentile | 1.6%, 93rd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare St. Patrick Hospital |
| 4 | Bitterroot Health - Daly Hospital | 10.9%, 64th percentile | — | 13.7%, 10th percentile | 18.7%, 10th percentile | 10.3%, 11th percentile | — | 13.7%, 97th percentile | Compare Bitterroot Health - Daly Hospital |
| 5 | St Peters Health | 11.2%, 58th percentile | 12.6%, 23rd percentile | 12.7%, 19th percentile | 13.4%, 77th percentile | 10.7%, 8th percentile | — | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare St Peters Health |
| 6 | Billings Clinic Hospital | 11.4%, 54th percentile | 12.3%, 32nd percentile | 11.7%, 35th percentile | 14.5%, 61st percentile | 9.9%, 16th percentile | 2.4%, 44th percentile | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare Billings Clinic Hospital |
| 7 | Community Medical Center | 12.7%, 33rd percentile | 12.7%, 21st percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 15.1%, 51st percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | — | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Community Medical Center |
| 8 | Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital | 12.8%, 31st percentile | 11.3%, 68th percentile | 10.9%, 52nd percentile | 14.3%, 64th percentile | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 13.3%, 99th percentile | Compare Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital |
| 9 | Benefis Hospitals Inc | 13.2%, 26th percentile | 12.1%, 38th percentile | 15.0%, 3rd percentile | 24.6%, 0th percentile | 11.7%, 3rd percentile | 4.7%, 2nd percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | Compare Benefis Hospitals Inc |
| 10 | Logan Health - Whitefish | 13.4%, 24th percentile | — | 16.4%, 1st percentile | 18.6%, 10th percentile | 12.1%, 2nd percentile | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Logan Health - Whitefish |
| 11 | Logan Health Medical Center | 13.7%, 21st percentile | 10.8%, 83rd percentile | 15.0%, 3rd percentile | 16.2%, 35th percentile | 9.9%, 16th percentile | 1.6%, 93rd percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Logan Health 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.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke 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.
- 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.
- 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.