Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Puerto Rico with the lowest pneumonia death rate
10 Puerto Rico hospitals ranked by pneumonia death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Doctors' Center Bayamon, San Juan VA Medical Center, Presbyterian Community Hospital. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure 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 | 15.2% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Doctors' Center Bayamon | 14.7%, 58th percentile | — | — | — | — | 16.2%, 7th percentile | 16.6%, 2nd percentile | Compare Doctors' Center Bayamon |
| 2 | San Juan VA Medical Center | 15.0%, 52nd percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 7.5%, 97th percentile | 7.0%, 88th percentile | — | — | 16.6%, 2nd percentile | Compare San Juan VA Medical Center |
| 3 | Presbyterian Community Hospital | 18.0%, 14th percentile | — | — | — | — | 13.0%, 28th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Presbyterian Community Hospital |
| 4 | Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo San Pablo | 18.2%, 13th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | — | — | — | 23.3%, 1st percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo San Pablo |
| 5 | Bayamon Medical Center | 18.6%, 10th percentile | — | — | — | — | 20.8%, 2nd percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Bayamon Medical Center |
| T6 | Hospital Pavia Santurce | 18.7%, 10th percentile | 14.9%, 1st percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | — | — | 21.9%, 1st percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Hospital Pavia Santurce |
| T6 | Doctors' Center Hospital San Juan | 18.7%, 10th percentile | — | — | — | — | 25.0%, 1st percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Doctors' Center Hospital San Juan |
| 8 | Auxilio Mutuo Hospital | 19.0%, 8th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | — | 28.8%, 0th percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | Compare Auxilio Mutuo Hospital |
| 9 | Mayaguez Medical Center Dr Ramon Emeterio Betances | 19.1%, 8th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | — | — | — | 31.5%, 0th percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | Compare Mayaguez Medical Center Dr Ramon Emeterio Betances |
| 10 | Asociacion Hospital Del Maestro, Inc | 20.4%, 4th percentile | — | — | — | — | — | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Asociacion Hospital Del Maestro, 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.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia 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.
- 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.