Hospital rankings
Hospitals in North Carolina with the lowest heart attack death rate
53 North Carolina hospitals ranked by heart attack 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 | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.9% | 3.3 | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | Carolina East Medical Center | 14.8%, 1st percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 11.7%, 35th percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | 0.86, 83rd percentile | 216 min, 13th percentile | 0.89, 90th percentile | 314 | Compare Carolina East Medical Center |
| T52 | Alamance Regional Medical Center | 14.9%, 1st percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 9.8%, 73rd percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | 1.27, 7th percentile | 228 min, 9th percentile | 0.93, 80th percentile | 238 | Compare Alamance Regional Medical Center |
| T52 | Catawba Valley Medical Center | 14.9%, 1st percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 17.3%, 1st percentile | 14.2%, 89th percentile | 0.93, 63rd percentile | 228 min, 9th percentile | 0.96, 66th percentile | 258 | Compare Catawba Valley 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.
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- 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).