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 | 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 | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
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| National average | 11.9% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 15.0% | ||
| 51 | Tristar Northcrest Medical Center | 16.1%, 7th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 11.2%, 96th percentile | 9.2%, 31st percentile | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Tristar Northcrest Medical Center |
| 52 | Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrence | 16.4%, 6th percentile | — | 13.2%, 13th percentile | 16.7%, 27th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | — | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrence |
| 53 | Morristown Hamblen Hospital Association | 17.0%, 5th percentile | 14.2%, 3rd percentile | 10.7%, 56th percentile | 15.1%, 51st percentile | 10.5%, 10th percentile | — | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Morristown Hamblen Hospital Association |
| T54 | Blount Memorial Hospital | 18.5%, 3rd percentile | 12.6%, 23rd percentile | 14.1%, 7th percentile | 17.8%, 15th percentile | 8.6%, 46th percentile | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Blount Memorial Hospital |
| T54 | St Francis Hospital | 18.5%, 3rd percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 17.9%, 15th percentile | 10.9%, 7th percentile | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 16.3%, 4th percentile | Compare St Francis Hospital |
| 56 | Lincoln Medical Center | 20.8%, 2nd percentile | — | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 16.8%, 26th percentile | — | — | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Lincoln Medical Center |
| 57 | Sweetwater Hospital Association | 32.5%, 0th percentile | — | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 18.4%, 11th percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 15.9%, 9th percentile | 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.
- 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.
- 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.