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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 51 | Carolina East Medical Center | 14.8%, 1st percentile | 11.7%, 35th percentile | 13.7%, 73rd percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 9.6%, 86th percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Carolina East Medical Center |
| T52 | Alamance Regional Medical Center | 14.9%, 1st percentile | 9.8%, 73rd percentile | 15.0%, 52nd percentile | 10.1%, 14th percentile | — | 10.8%, 66th percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | Compare Alamance Regional Medical Center |
| T52 | Catawba Valley Medical Center | 14.9%, 1st percentile | 17.3%, 1st percentile | 23.4%, 0th percentile | 9.5%, 24th percentile | — | 11.1%, 60th percentile | 14.2%, 89th percentile | 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.
- 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.