Hospital rankings
Hospitals in North Carolina with the lowest hospital-wide readmission rate
103 North Carolina hospitals ranked by hospital-wide readmission rate in the 2025 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | 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 | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 15.0% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | ||
| 101 | Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital | 16.2%, 5th percentile | — | 14.4%, 6th percentile | 16.7%, 27th percentile | 9.8%, 18th percentile | — | 12.4%, 37th percentile | Compare Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital |
| 102 | Onslow Memorial Hospital | 16.4%, 3rd percentile | — | 11.6%, 37th percentile | 20.9%, 2nd percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | — | 12.6%, 34th percentile | Compare Onslow Memorial Hospital |
| 103 | Transylvania Regional Hospital, Inc | 16.8%, 1st percentile | — | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 7.4%, 80th percentile | — | 11.6%, 51st percentile | Compare Transylvania Regional Hospital, Inc |
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.
- 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.
- 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.