Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Tennessee with the lowest stroke death rate
57 Tennessee hospitals ranked by stroke death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Stroke death ratelower 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 | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
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| National average | 11.9% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | Tristar Northcrest Medical Center | 16.1%, 7th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | 0.95, 55th percentile | 142 min, 55th percentile | 0.95, 71st percentile | 109 | Compare Tristar Northcrest Medical Center |
| 52 | Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrence | 16.4%, 6th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 13.2%, 13th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | 0.94, 59th percentile | 129 min, 66th percentile | 1.07, 14th percentile | 96 | Compare Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrence |
| 53 | Morristown Hamblen Hospital Association | 17.0%, 5th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 14.2%, 3rd percentile | 10.7%, 56th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | 0.98, 41st percentile | 198 min, 20th percentile | 0.96, 66th percentile | 167 | Compare Morristown Hamblen Hospital Association |
| T54 | Blount Memorial Hospital | 18.5%, 3rd percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.6%, 23rd percentile | 14.1%, 7th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | 1.03, 29th percentile | 216 min, 13th percentile | 0.97, 61st percentile | 304 | Compare Blount Memorial Hospital |
| T54 | St Francis Hospital | 18.5%, 3rd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 1, 1st percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | 1.23, 9th percentile | 150 min, 49th percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 519 | Compare St Francis Hospital |
| 56 | Lincoln Medical Center | 20.8%, 2nd percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 0.97, 46th percentile | 130 min, 65th percentile | 1.23, 1st percentile | 91 | Compare Lincoln Medical Center |
| 57 | Sweetwater Hospital Association | 32.5%, 0th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 15.9%, 9th percentile | 1.14, 15th percentile | 182 min, 28th percentile | 1.00, 44th percentile | 59 | Compare Sweetwater Hospital Association |
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.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke patients.
- 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).
- Time in emergency department
- Median time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving.
- 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).