Hospital rankings
Hospitals in New Mexico with the lowest serious complications
24 New Mexico hospitals ranked by serious complications in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Mountain View Regional Medical Center, San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc, Eastern New Mexico Medical Center. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Serious complicationslower is better | Central line bloodstream infectionslower is better | Catheter-associated urinary tract infectionslower is better | Surgical site infections (colon)lower is better | Surgical site infections (hysterectomy)lower is better | MRSA bloodstream infectionslower is better | C. diff infectionslower is better | Compare |
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| National average | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| 1 | Mountain View Regional Medical Center | 0.82, 90th percentile | 0.00, 90th percentile | 0.00, 88th percentile | 1.24, 23rd percentile | — | 0.00, 91st percentile | 0.34, 41st percentile | Compare Mountain View Regional Medical Center |
| 2 | San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc | 0.86, 83rd percentile | 2.33, 1st percentile | 1.63, 3rd percentile | 2.24, 3rd percentile | — | 1.76, 4th percentile | 0.22, 59th percentile | Compare San Juan Regional Medical Center Inc |
| 3 | Eastern New Mexico Medical Center | 0.88, 78th percentile | — | 0.00, 88th percentile | — | — | — | 0.00, 90th percentile | Compare Eastern New Mexico Medical Center |
| 4 | Lovelace Women's Hospital | 0.92, 67th percentile | 0.59, 40th percentile | 1.22, 8th percentile | — | — | 0.00, 91st percentile | 0.40, 34th percentile | Compare Lovelace Women's Hospital |
| T5 | Lovelace Westside Hospital | 0.93, 63rd percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 0.62, 16th percentile | Compare Lovelace Westside Hospital |
| T5 | Christus Southern New Mexico | 0.93, 63rd percentile | — | 0.79, 20th percentile | 0.00, 91st percentile | — | — | 0.00, 90th percentile | Compare Christus Southern New Mexico |
| 7 | Three Crosses Regional Hospital LLC | 0.94, 59th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 1.05, 5th percentile | Compare Three Crosses Regional Hospital LLC |
| 8 | Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center | 0.95, 55th percentile | — | — | 1.44, 16th percentile | — | — | 1.22, 3rd percentile | Compare Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center |
| T9 | Northern Navajo Medical Center | 0.96, 51st percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 0.25, 54th percentile | Compare Northern Navajo Medical Center |
| T9 | Gallup Indian Medical Center | 0.96, 51st percentile | — | 0.00, 88th percentile | — | — | — | 0.93, 6th percentile | Compare Gallup Indian Medical Center |
| T9 | Plains Regional Medical Center | 0.96, 51st percentile | — | 0.00, 88th percentile | — | — | — | 0.99, 5th percentile | Compare Plains Regional Medical Center |
| T9 | Carlsbad Medical Center | 0.96, 51st percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 0.24, 56th percentile | Compare Carlsbad Medical Center |
| T9 | Presbyterian Espanola Hospital | 0.96, 51st percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 0.00, 90th percentile | Compare Presbyterian Espanola Hospital |
| 14 | Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital | 0.97, 46th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 2.26, 1st percentile | Compare Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital |
| T15 | Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell | 0.98, 41st percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | Compare Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell |
| T15 | Los Alamos Medical Center | 0.98, 41st percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | Compare Los Alamos Medical Center |
| 17 | Roosevelt General Hospital | 0.99, 37th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | Compare Roosevelt General Hospital |
| 18 | Artesia General Hospital | 1.16, 13th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | Compare Artesia General Hospital |
| 19 | Memorial Medical Center | 1.18, 12th percentile | 0.41, 57th percentile | 0.24, 64th percentile | 0.00, 91st percentile | — | 0.45, 64th percentile | 0.23, 57th percentile | Compare Memorial Medical Center |
| 20 | Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center | 1.37, 4th percentile | 1.50, 6th percentile | 1.03, 11th percentile | 0.61, 57th percentile | — | 1.09, 18th percentile | 0.31, 45th percentile | Compare Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center |
| 21 | Lovelace Medical Center | 1.44, 3rd percentile | 0.94, 18th percentile | 0.47, 42nd percentile | 0.00, 91st percentile | — | 0.29, 75th percentile | 0.36, 38th percentile | Compare Lovelace Medical Center |
| 22 | Presbyterian Hospital | 1.47, 3rd percentile | 1.04, 14th percentile | 0.93, 14th percentile | 1.35, 19th percentile | 1.98, 15th percentile | 0.57, 52nd percentile | 0.65, 15th percentile | Compare Presbyterian Hospital |
| 23 | UNM Hospital | 1.51, 2nd percentile | 0.88, 21st percentile | 0.68, 26th percentile | 1.58, 13th percentile | 0.46, 72nd percentile | 0.94, 24th percentile | 0.88, 7th percentile | Compare UNM Hospital |
| 24 | VA New Mexico Healthcare System | 1.85, 1st percentile | 1.25, 9th percentile | 1.57, 4th percentile | — | — | — | — | Compare VA New Mexico Healthcare System |
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.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- Central line bloodstream infections
- Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in ICUs and select wards (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) in ICUs and select wards (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Surgical site infections (colon)
- Surgical site infections from colon surgery (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Surgical site infections (hysterectomy)
- Surgical site infections from abdominal hysterectomy (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- MRSA bloodstream infections
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood laboratory-identified events (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- C. diff infections
- Clostridium difficile (C. diff) intestinal infections (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).