Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Texas with the lowest stroke death rate
161 Texas 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 | ||||
| 151 | CHI St Luke's Health Brazosport | 16.2%, 7th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 10.6%, 87th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | 0.91, 70th percentile | 152 min, 48th percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 165 | Compare CHI St Luke's Health Brazosport |
| 152 | Citizens Medical Center | 16.6%, 6th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | 0.90, 73rd percentile | 200 min, 19th percentile | 1.22, 1st percentile | 265 | Compare Citizens Medical Center |
| T153 | Hill Country Memorial Hospital | 16.8%, 5th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | — | 16.0%, 1st percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | 0.91, 70th percentile | 156 min, 45th percentile | 1.01, 38th percentile | 84 | Compare Hill Country Memorial Hospital |
| T153 | Medical Center Hospital | 16.8%, 5th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 10.9%, 52nd percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | 1.28, 7th percentile | 150 min, 49th percentile | 1.11, 7th percentile | 402 | Compare Medical Center Hospital |
| T153 | CHI St Lukes Health Memorial Lufkin | 16.8%, 5th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | 1.08, 22nd percentile | 164 min, 39th percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 279 | Compare CHI St Lukes Health Memorial Lufkin |
| 156 | Peterson Regional Medical Center | 17.3%, 4th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 11.1%, 74th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | 1.59, 1st percentile | 162 min, 41st percentile | 0.97, 61st percentile | 124 | Compare Peterson Regional Medical Center |
| 157 | Shannon Medical Center | 17.4%, 4th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 14.0%, 4th percentile | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | 1.02, 31st percentile | 144 min, 53rd percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 616 | Compare Shannon Medical Center |
| 158 | HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland | 17.7%, 4th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | 1.00, 35th percentile | 134 min, 62nd percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 53 | Compare HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland |
| 159 | Navarro Regional Hospital | 17.9%, 4th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 13.4%, 12th percentile | 16.6%, 2nd percentile | 0.91, 70th percentile | 175 min, 32nd percentile | 1.02, 33rd percentile | 162 | Compare Navarro Regional Hospital |
| 160 | Midland Memorial Hospital | 18.3%, 3rd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 14.5%, 2nd percentile | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 1.12, 17th percentile | 193 min, 23rd percentile | 1.15, 4th percentile | 540 | Compare Midland Memorial Hospital |
| 161 | Palestine Regional Medical Center | 29.7%, 0th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 15.6%, 2nd percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | 1.05, 26th percentile | 136 min, 60th percentile | 1.10, 8th percentile | 161 | Compare Palestine Regional 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.
- 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).