Hospital rankings
Hospitals in South Dakota with the lowest heart failure death rate
16 South Dakota hospitals ranked by heart failure death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: VA Black Hills Healthcare System, Monument Health Rapid City Hospital, Monument Health Spearfish Hospital. 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 | VA Black Hills Healthcare System | 9.7%, 75th percentile | — | 12.1%, 91st percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | — | — | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare VA Black Hills Healthcare System |
| 2 | Monument Health Rapid City Hospital | 9.8%, 73rd percentile | 12.8%, 19th percentile | 12.3%, 89th percentile | 11.8%, 3rd percentile | 2.8%, 24th percentile | 13.4%, 24th percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Monument Health Rapid City Hospital |
| 3 | Monument Health Spearfish Hospital | 10.0%, 70th percentile | — | 15.0%, 52nd percentile | — | — | — | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare Monument Health Spearfish Hospital |
| 4 | Avera Heart Hospital Of South Dakota | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | — | — | 3.2%, 14th percentile | — | 13.8%, 96th percentile | Compare Avera Heart Hospital Of South Dakota |
| 5 | Avera St Lukes | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 15.3%, 48th percentile | 8.2%, 58th percentile | — | 12.0%, 44th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Avera St Lukes |
| 6 | Sanford USDMedical Center | 11.2%, 46th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 13.2%, 80th percentile | 9.8%, 18th percentile | 2.6%, 33rd percentile | 10.6%, 69th percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Sanford USDMedical Center |
| T7 | Brookings Health System | 11.5%, 39th percentile | — | 14.8%, 56th percentile | — | — | — | 13.7%, 97th percentile | Compare Brookings Health System |
| T7 | Sanford Medical Center Aberdeen | 11.5%, 39th percentile | — | 15.3%, 48th percentile | 9.3%, 28th percentile | — | — | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Sanford Medical Center Aberdeen |
| 9 | Madison Regional Health System | 11.7%, 35th percentile | — | 14.1%, 67th percentile | — | — | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Madison Regional Health System |
| 10 | Community Memorial Hospital | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | — | 17.6%, 17th percentile | 9.6%, 22nd percentile | — | — | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Community Memorial Hospital |
| 11 | Avera Queen Of Peace | 12.1%, 28th percentile | — | 12.9%, 83rd percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | — | 12.4%, 37th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Avera Queen Of Peace |
| 12 | Sioux Falls VA Medical Center | 12.3%, 25th percentile | — | 13.0%, 82nd percentile | 8.3%, 54th percentile | — | — | 13.6%, 97th percentile | Compare Sioux Falls VA Medical Center |
| 13 | Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 8.1%, 61st percentile | — | 10.9%, 64th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center |
| T14 | Prairie Lakes Healthcare System, Inc | 14.8%, 4th percentile | 13.5%, 8th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 10.0%, 15th percentile | — | 11.6%, 51st percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Prairie Lakes Healthcare System, Inc |
| T14 | Avera St Mary's Hospital | 14.8%, 4th percentile | — | 19.7%, 5th percentile | — | — | 12.2%, 40th percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare Avera St Mary's Hospital |
| 16 | Avera Sacred Heart Hospital | 16.0%, 1st percentile | — | 17.4%, 19th percentile | — | — | 7.8%, 99th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Avera Sacred Heart Hospital |
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.