Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Tennessee with the lowest CABG surgery death rate
20 Tennessee hospitals ranked by CABG surgery death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Memorial Healthcare System, Inc, Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | CABG surgery 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 | Stroke death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
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| National average | 2.4% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Memorial Healthcare System, Inc | 1.5%, 96th percentile | 10.0%, 96th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 13.4%, 77th percentile | 10.6%, 9th percentile | 10.7%, 68th percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Memorial Healthcare System, Inc |
| 2 | Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital | 1.6%, 93rd percentile | 11.5%, 62nd percentile | 10.1%, 68th percentile | 15.7%, 42nd percentile | 9.2%, 31st percentile | 10.7%, 68th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital |
| T3 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | 1.8%, 85th percentile | 12.1%, 38th percentile | 9.2%, 84th percentile | 11.7%, 93rd percentile | 9.6%, 22nd percentile | 10.1%, 79th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| T3 | Baptist Memorial Hospital | 1.8%, 85th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 11.7%, 35th percentile | 13.7%, 73rd percentile | 7.3%, 83rd percentile | 9.6%, 86th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Baptist Memorial Hospital |
| T3 | Jackson-Madison County General Hospital | 1.8%, 85th percentile | 13.6%, 7th percentile | 13.2%, 13th percentile | 19.3%, 7th percentile | 12.1%, 2nd percentile | 12.3%, 39th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Jackson-Madison County General Hospital |
| T3 | Parkwest Medical Center | 1.8%, 85th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 14.6%, 5th percentile | 16.5%, 30th percentile | 10.8%, 8th percentile | 13.4%, 24th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Parkwest Medical Center |
| T7 | Methodist Medical Center Of Oak Ridge | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 13.8%, 9th percentile | 16.8%, 26th percentile | 8.1%, 61st percentile | 10.9%, 64th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Methodist Medical Center Of Oak Ridge |
| T7 | University Health System, Inc | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 15.8%, 40th percentile | 7.3%, 83rd percentile | 12.0%, 44th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare University Health System, Inc |
| T9 | Methodist Hospitals Of Memphis | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 12.7%, 21st percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 15.7%, 42nd percentile | 11.7%, 3rd percentile | 12.1%, 42nd percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Methodist Hospitals Of Memphis |
| T9 | Cookeville Regional Medical Center | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 11.0%, 77th percentile | 12.2%, 27th percentile | 17.4%, 19th percentile | 12.3%, 1st percentile | 11.3%, 56th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Cookeville Regional Medical Center |
| 11 | Physicians Regional Medical Center | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 13.2%, 11th percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 16.1%, 36th percentile | 8.6%, 46th percentile | 12.8%, 31st percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Physicians Regional Medical Center |
| 12 | Erlanger Medical Center | 2.3%, 49th percentile | 14.8%, 1st percentile | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 13.1%, 81st percentile | 8.7%, 43rd percentile | 11.7%, 49th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Erlanger Medical Center |
| 13 | St Francis Hospital | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 17.9%, 15th percentile | 10.9%, 7th percentile | 18.5%, 3rd percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | Compare St Francis Hospital |
| 14 | Parkridge Medical Center | 2.6%, 33rd percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 7.6%, 75th percentile | 9.3%, 90th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Parkridge Medical Center |
| 15 | Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center | 2.8%, 24th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 11.9%, 32nd percentile | 17.7%, 16th percentile | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 12.2%, 40th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center |
| 16 | Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital | 2.9%, 22nd percentile | 9.6%, 98th percentile | 9.1%, 85th percentile | 14.5%, 61st percentile | 10.7%, 8th percentile | 11.6%, 51st percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital |
| 17 | Tristar Centennial Medical Center | 3.0%, 19th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 18.6%, 10th percentile | 9.6%, 22nd percentile | 11.6%, 51st percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare Tristar Centennial Medical Center |
| 18 | Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center | 3.1%, 16th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 14.7%, 5th percentile | 20.5%, 3rd percentile | 11.2%, 5th percentile | 13.3%, 25th percentile | 15.8%, 11th percentile | Compare Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center |
| 19 | Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center | 3.4%, 9th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 16.4%, 31st percentile | 11.4%, 4th percentile | 12.5%, 36th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center |
| 20 | Johnson City Medical Center | 4.4%, 2nd percentile | 13.9%, 4th percentile | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 17.2%, 21st percentile | 10.4%, 11th percentile | 13.0%, 28th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Johnson City Medical Center |
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.
- CABG surgery death rate
- 30-day death rate for CABG surgery 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.
- 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.