Hospital rankings
Hospitals in North Dakota with the lowest heart failure death rate
15 North Dakota hospitals ranked by heart failure death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Sanford Medical Center Fargo, Fargo VA Medical Center, CHI St Alexius Health. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Heart attack 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 |
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| National average | 11.1% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Sanford Medical Center Fargo | 8.5%, 91st percentile | 11.3%, 68th percentile | 10.2%, 98th percentile | 8.7%, 43rd percentile | 1.8%, 85th percentile | 12.1%, 42nd percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Sanford Medical Center Fargo |
| 2 | Fargo VA Medical Center | 9.2%, 84th percentile | — | 11.5%, 94th percentile | 7.1%, 87th percentile | — | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Fargo VA Medical Center |
| 3 | CHI St Alexius Health | 9.3%, 82nd percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 13.0%, 82nd percentile | 9.5%, 24th percentile | 3.8%, 5th percentile | 10.1%, 79th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare CHI St Alexius Health |
| 4 | Sanford Medical Center Bismarck | 9.5%, 79th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 12.7%, 85th percentile | 7.6%, 75th percentile | 2.3%, 49th percentile | 9.3%, 90th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Sanford Medical Center Bismarck |
| 5 | CHI St Alexius Health Devils Lake | 10.0%, 70th percentile | — | 16.5%, 30th percentile | — | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare CHI St Alexius Health Devils Lake |
| T6 | Essentia Health | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 10.4%, 90th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 8.3%, 54th percentile | 2.7%, 28th percentile | 11.5%, 53rd percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Essentia Health |
| T6 | Trinity Hospitals | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 18.3%, 12th percentile | 10.6%, 9th percentile | 2.6%, 33rd percentile | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Trinity Hospitals |
| 8 | CHI Mercy Health | 10.9%, 52nd percentile | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | — | — | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare CHI Mercy Health |
| 9 | CHI St Alexius Health Dickinson | 11.8%, 34th percentile | — | 13.9%, 70th percentile | — | — | — | 13.6%, 97th percentile | Compare CHI St Alexius Health Dickinson |
| T10 | West River Regional Medical Center | 12.3%, 25th percentile | — | 19.2%, 7th percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare West River Regional Medical Center |
| T10 | Altru Hospital | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 16.3%, 33rd percentile | 7.0%, 88th percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 11.1%, 60th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Altru Hospital |
| 12 | SMP Health St Aloisius | 12.9%, 17th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare SMP Health St Aloisius |
| 13 | Jamestown Regional Medical Center | 14.5%, 5th percentile | — | 15.7%, 42nd percentile | — | — | — | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Jamestown Regional Medical Center |
| 14 | Tioga Medical Center | 14.6%, 5th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Tioga Medical Center |
| 15 | CHI St Alexius Health Williston | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | — | 16.6%, 29th percentile | — | — | — | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare CHI St Alexius Health Williston |
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 failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack 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.