Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Nebraska with the lowest heart attack death rate
19 Nebraska hospitals ranked by heart attack death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: The Nebraska Medical Center, CHI Health Immanuel, CHI Health Good Samaritan. 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 | The Nebraska Medical Center | 10.3%, 92nd percentile | 10.1%, 68th percentile | 13.8%, 72nd percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare The Nebraska Medical Center |
| 2 | CHI Health Immanuel | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 11.7%, 35th percentile | 16.0%, 38th percentile | 9.2%, 31st percentile | — | 13.6%, 22nd percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare CHI Health Immanuel |
| T3 | CHI Health Good Samaritan | 11.0%, 77th percentile | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 8.1%, 61st percentile | 2.8%, 24th percentile | 8.2%, 97th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare CHI Health Good Samaritan |
| T3 | The Nebraska Methodist Hospital | 11.0%, 77th percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 7.6%, 75th percentile | 1.6%, 93rd percentile | 10.1%, 79th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare The Nebraska Methodist Hospital |
| 5 | Regional West Medical Center | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 14.0%, 8th percentile | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 10.6%, 9th percentile | — | 16.3%, 7th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Regional West Medical Center |
| T6 | CHI Health Bergan Mercy | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 9.6%, 77th percentile | 15.5%, 45th percentile | 8.4%, 52nd percentile | 3.4%, 9th percentile | 11.8%, 47th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare CHI Health Bergan Mercy |
| T6 | Grand Island Regional Medical Center | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 14.6%, 5th percentile | 19.2%, 7th percentile | 11.4%, 4th percentile | — | 15.5%, 10th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Grand Island Regional Medical Center |
| 8 | Great Plains Health | 11.5%, 62nd percentile | 11.3%, 44th percentile | 14.2%, 66th percentile | 8.3%, 54th percentile | — | 13.9%, 19th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Great Plains Health |
| 9 | Bellevue Medical Center | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 15.1%, 51st percentile | 8.2%, 58th percentile | — | 10.3%, 75th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Bellevue Medical Center |
| T10 | CHI Health Nebraska Heart | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 13.3%, 12th percentile | — | — | 2.7%, 28th percentile | — | 13.3%, 99th percentile | Compare CHI Health Nebraska Heart |
| T10 | Kearney Regional Medical Center | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 13.3%, 12th percentile | 12.5%, 87th percentile | 11.6%, 3rd percentile | 2.4%, 44th percentile | 12.4%, 37th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Kearney Regional Medical Center |
| T12 | CHI Health Lakeside | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 13.3%, 12th percentile | 14.4%, 63rd percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | — | 10.3%, 75th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare CHI Health Lakeside |
| T12 | CHI Health St. Francis | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 10.0%, 70th percentile | 15.2%, 50th percentile | 8.0%, 63rd percentile | — | 10.5%, 71st percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare CHI Health St. Francis |
| T12 | Omaha VA Medical Center (VA Nebraska Western Iowa Healthcare System) | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 9.5%, 79th percentile | 12.2%, 90th percentile | 9.4%, 26th percentile | — | — | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Omaha VA Medical Center (VA Nebraska Western Iowa Healthcare System) |
| 15 | Columbus Community Hospital, Inc | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 16.3%, 33rd percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 15.3%, 11th percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Columbus Community Hospital, Inc |
| 16 | Faith Health | 12.8%, 19th percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 17.5%, 18th percentile | 9.2%, 31st percentile | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 9.3%, 90th percentile | 13.8%, 96th percentile | Compare Faith Health |
| 17 | Mary Lanning Healthcare | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 18.8%, 0th percentile | 18.9%, 9th percentile | 12.1%, 2nd percentile | — | 9.8%, 84th percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | Compare Mary Lanning Healthcare |
| 18 | Methodist Fremont Health | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 12.7%, 19th percentile | 14.5%, 61st percentile | 10.3%, 11th percentile | — | 12.6%, 34th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Methodist Fremont Health |
| 19 | Bryan Medical Center | 14.3%, 2nd percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 16.6%, 29th percentile | 7.4%, 80th percentile | 3.5%, 8th percentile | 13.3%, 25th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Bryan 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 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.