Hospital rankings
Hospitals in New York with the lowest COPD death rate
118 New York hospitals ranked by COPD 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 | COPD death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Pneumonia 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 | 8.6% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| T96 | Olean General Hospital | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 10.3%, 92nd percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 22.0%, 1st percentile | — | 13.9%, 19th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Olean General Hospital |
| T102 | Garnet Health Medical Center Catskills | 9.8%, 18th percentile | — | 9.2%, 84th percentile | 16.0%, 38th percentile | — | 10.3%, 75th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Garnet Health Medical Center Catskills |
| T102 | Albany Medical Center Hospital | 9.8%, 18th percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 17.6%, 17th percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Albany Medical Center Hospital |
| T102 | St John's Episcopal Hospital At South Shore | 9.8%, 18th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 9.6%, 77th percentile | 25.8%, 0th percentile | — | 14.9%, 12th percentile | 18.2%, 0th percentile | Compare St John's Episcopal Hospital At South Shore |
| T105 | Nicholas H Noyes Memorial Hospital | 9.9%, 16th percentile | — | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 18.1%, 13th percentile | — | 12.6%, 34th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Nicholas H Noyes Memorial Hospital |
| T105 | Syracuse VA Medical Center | 9.9%, 16th percentile | 12.6%, 23rd percentile | 9.5%, 79th percentile | 12.8%, 84th percentile | — | — | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Syracuse VA Medical Center |
| T105 | Nathan Littauer Hospital | 9.9%, 16th percentile | — | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 17.9%, 15th percentile | — | 13.4%, 24th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Nathan Littauer Hospital |
| 108 | Rome Memorial Hospital, Inc | 10.6%, 9th percentile | — | 16.3%, 1st percentile | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | — | 11.8%, 47th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Rome Memorial Hospital, Inc |
| T109 | Geneva General Hospital | 10.7%, 8th percentile | — | 10.8%, 54th percentile | 17.4%, 19th percentile | — | 12.2%, 40th percentile | 16.9%, 1st percentile | Compare Geneva General Hospital |
| T109 | Oneida Health Hospital | 10.7%, 8th percentile | — | 10.9%, 52nd percentile | 19.0%, 8th percentile | — | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Oneida Health Hospital |
| T111 | Cayuga Medical Center At Ithaca | 10.9%, 7th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 22.0%, 1st percentile | — | 15.1%, 11th percentile | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare Cayuga Medical Center At Ithaca |
| T111 | Mercy Hospital Of Buffalo | 10.9%, 7th percentile | 13.5%, 8th percentile | 14.9%, 4th percentile | 15.5%, 45th percentile | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 13.3%, 25th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Mercy Hospital Of Buffalo |
| T111 | United Health Services Hospitals, Inc | 10.9%, 7th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 16.8%, 26th percentile | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 11.1%, 60th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare United Health Services Hospitals, Inc |
| T114 | Canton-Potsdam Hospital | 11.0%, 6th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 20.0%, 4th percentile | — | 13.1%, 27th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare Canton-Potsdam Hospital |
| T114 | Erie County Medical Center | 11.0%, 6th percentile | — | 10.1%, 68th percentile | 12.9%, 83rd percentile | — | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Erie County Medical Center |
| T116 | Glens Falls Hospital | 11.1%, 5th percentile | 12.7%, 21st percentile | 13.5%, 11th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | — | 11.1%, 60th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Glens Falls Hospital |
| T116 | Wynn Hospital | 11.1%, 5th percentile | 12.1%, 38th percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 18.3%, 12th percentile | — | 20.3%, 2nd percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare Wynn Hospital |
| 118 | Columbia Memorial Hospital | 12.7%, 1st percentile | — | 14.6%, 5th percentile | 17.2%, 21st percentile | — | 10.0%, 81st percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Columbia Memorial 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.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD 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.
- 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.