Hospital rankings
Hospitals in North Dakota with the lowest stroke death rate
6 North Dakota hospitals ranked by stroke death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Sanford Medical Center Bismarck, CHI St Alexius Health, Trinity Hospitals. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Stroke death ratelower is better | 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 | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.9% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Sanford Medical Center Bismarck | 9.3%, 90th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 9.5%, 79th percentile | 12.7%, 85th percentile | 7.6%, 75th percentile | 2.3%, 49th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Sanford Medical Center Bismarck |
| 2 | CHI St Alexius Health | 10.1%, 79th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 9.3%, 82nd percentile | 13.0%, 82nd percentile | 9.5%, 24th percentile | 3.8%, 5th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare CHI St Alexius Health |
| 3 | Trinity Hospitals | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 18.3%, 12th percentile | 10.6%, 9th percentile | 2.6%, 33rd percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Trinity Hospitals |
| 4 | Altru Hospital | 11.1%, 60th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 16.3%, 33rd percentile | 7.0%, 88th percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Altru Hospital |
| 5 | Essentia Health | 11.5%, 53rd percentile | 10.4%, 90th percentile | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 8.3%, 54th percentile | 2.7%, 28th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Essentia Health |
| 6 | Sanford Medical Center Fargo | 12.1%, 42nd percentile | 11.3%, 68th percentile | 8.5%, 91st percentile | 10.2%, 98th percentile | 8.7%, 43rd percentile | 1.8%, 85th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Sanford Medical Center Fargo |
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.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke 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.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD patients.
- CABG surgery death rate
- 30-day death rate for CABG surgery 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.