Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Texas with the lowest heart failure death rate
206 Texas hospitals ranked by heart failure 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 | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.1% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 201 | Lubbock Heart Hospital LP | 14.4%, 6th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | 1.31, 6th percentile | 159 min, 43rd percentile | 1.09, 10th percentile | 74 | Compare Lubbock Heart Hospital LP |
| 202 | UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital | 14.8%, 4th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 16.2%, 5th percentile | 0.94, 59th percentile | 155 min, 46th percentile | 1.08, 12th percentile | 127 | Compare UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital |
| 203 | Midland Memorial Hospital | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 14.5%, 2nd percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 1.12, 17th percentile | 193 min, 23rd percentile | 1.15, 4th percentile | 540 | Compare Midland Memorial Hospital |
| 204 | Palestine Regional Medical Center | 15.6%, 2nd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 15.5%, 19th percentile | 1.05, 26th percentile | 136 min, 60th percentile | 1.10, 8th percentile | 161 | Compare Palestine Regional Medical Center |
| 205 | Hill Country Memorial Hospital | 16.0%, 1st percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | 0.91, 70th percentile | 156 min, 45th percentile | 1.01, 38th percentile | 84 | Compare Hill Country Memorial Hospital |
| 206 | Hill Regional Hospital | 16.8%, 1st percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | — | — | — | 25 | Compare Hill Regional 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.
- 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.
- 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).