Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Puerto Rico with the lowest heart attack death rate
7 Puerto Rico hospitals ranked by heart attack death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo San Pablo, Centro Cardiovascular De Puerto Rico Y El Caribe, San Juan VA Medical Center. 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% | ||
| 1 | Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo San Pablo | 10.9%, 80th percentile | — | 18.2%, 13th percentile | — | — | 23.3%, 1st percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo San Pablo |
| 2 | Centro Cardiovascular De Puerto Rico Y El Caribe | 11.1%, 74th percentile | 10.4%, 62nd percentile | — | — | — | — | 16.2%, 5th percentile | Compare Centro Cardiovascular De Puerto Rico Y El Caribe |
| 3 | San Juan VA Medical Center | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 7.5%, 97th percentile | 15.0%, 52nd percentile | 7.0%, 88th percentile | — | — | 16.6%, 2nd percentile | Compare San Juan VA Medical Center |
| 4 | Hospital Episcopal San Lucas II | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | — | — | — | — | 17.6%, 4th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Hospital Episcopal San Lucas II |
| 5 | Mayaguez Medical Center Dr Ramon Emeterio Betances | 12.2%, 35th percentile | — | 19.1%, 8th percentile | — | — | 31.5%, 0th percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | Compare Mayaguez Medical Center Dr Ramon Emeterio Betances |
| 6 | Auxilio Mutuo Hospital | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 19.0%, 8th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | — | 28.8%, 0th percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | Compare Auxilio Mutuo Hospital |
| 7 | Hospital Pavia Santurce | 14.9%, 1st percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 18.7%, 10th percentile | — | — | 21.9%, 1st percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Hospital Pavia Santurce |
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.