Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Puerto Rico with the lowest time in emergency department
7 Puerto Rico hospitals ranked by time in emergency department in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Puerto Rico Women And Children Hospital LLC, Hospital Damas Inc, Hospital Menonita Guayama. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Serious complicationslower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
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| National average | 162 min | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| 1 | Puerto Rico Women And Children Hospital LLC | 84 min, 97th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 127 | Compare Puerto Rico Women And Children Hospital LLC |
| 2 | Hospital Damas Inc | 205 min, 17th percentile | — | 2, 10th percentile | — | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | — | — | 331 | Compare Hospital Damas Inc |
| 3 | Hospital Menonita Guayama | 277 min, 2nd percentile | — | — | — | — | 16.4%, 3rd percentile | — | — | 230 | Compare Hospital Menonita Guayama |
| 4 | Bayamon Medical Center | 279 min, 2nd percentile | — | 1, 1st percentile | — | — | 15.8%, 11th percentile | — | — | 274 | Compare Bayamon Medical Center |
| 5 | Doctors Center Hospital Orlando Health Dorado | 328 min, 1st percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | — | — | 160 | Compare Doctors Center Hospital Orlando Health Dorado |
| 6 | Doctors Center Hospital Carolina LLC | 347 min, 0th percentile | — | 2, 10th percentile | — | — | 15.8%, 11th percentile | — | — | 109 | Compare Doctors Center Hospital Carolina LLC |
| 7 | Manati Medical Center Dr Otero Lopez | 381 min, 0th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | — | — | 15.9%, 9th percentile | — | — | 285 | Compare Manati Medical Center Dr Otero Lopez |
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.
- Time in emergency department
- Median time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving.
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- 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).
- 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).