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 | 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% | ||
| 201 | Lubbock Heart Hospital LP | 14.4%, 6th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 14.6%, 60th percentile | 9.4%, 26th percentile | 2.7%, 28th percentile | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Lubbock Heart Hospital LP |
| 202 | UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital | 14.8%, 4th percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 17.0%, 24th percentile | 7.9%, 66th percentile | — | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 16.2%, 5th percentile | Compare UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital |
| 203 | Midland Memorial Hospital | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | 14.5%, 2nd percentile | 19.5%, 6th percentile | 10.0%, 15th percentile | 2.9%, 22nd percentile | 18.3%, 3rd percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Midland Memorial Hospital |
| 204 | Palestine Regional Medical Center | 15.6%, 2nd percentile | — | 16.9%, 25th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | — | 29.7%, 0th percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Palestine Regional Medical Center |
| 205 | Hill Country Memorial Hospital | 16.0%, 1st percentile | — | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | — | 16.8%, 5th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Hill Country Memorial Hospital |
| 206 | Hill Regional Hospital | 16.8%, 1st percentile | — | 19.4%, 6th percentile | — | — | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | 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.
- 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.