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 | 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% | ||
| 151 | CHI St Luke's Health Brazosport | 16.2%, 7th percentile | 10.6%, 87th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 14.1%, 67th percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare CHI St Luke's Health Brazosport |
| 152 | Citizens Medical Center | 16.6%, 6th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 18.4%, 11th percentile | 9.4%, 26th percentile | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Citizens Medical Center |
| T153 | Hill Country Memorial Hospital | 16.8%, 5th percentile | — | 16.0%, 1st percentile | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Hill Country Memorial Hospital |
| T153 | Medical Center Hospital | 16.8%, 5th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 10.9%, 52nd percentile | 17.8%, 15th percentile | 9.3%, 28th percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Medical Center Hospital |
| T153 | CHI St Lukes Health Memorial Lufkin | 16.8%, 5th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 12.6%, 86th percentile | 9.1%, 34th percentile | 3.0%, 19th percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | Compare CHI St Lukes Health Memorial Lufkin |
| 156 | Peterson Regional Medical Center | 17.3%, 4th percentile | 11.1%, 74th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 15.4%, 46th percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare Peterson Regional Medical Center |
| 157 | Shannon Medical Center | 17.4%, 4th percentile | 14.0%, 4th percentile | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 13.5%, 76th percentile | 7.3%, 83rd percentile | 4.2%, 3rd percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare Shannon Medical Center |
| 158 | HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland | 17.7%, 4th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 11.1%, 48th percentile | 10.9%, 97th percentile | — | — | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland |
| 159 | Navarro Regional Hospital | 17.9%, 4th percentile | — | 13.4%, 12th percentile | 15.3%, 48th percentile | 8.1%, 61st percentile | — | 16.6%, 2nd percentile | Compare Navarro Regional Hospital |
| 160 | Midland Memorial Hospital | 18.3%, 3rd percentile | 14.5%, 2nd percentile | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | 19.5%, 6th percentile | 10.0%, 15th percentile | 2.9%, 22nd percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Midland Memorial Hospital |
| 161 | Palestine Regional Medical Center | 29.7%, 0th percentile | — | 15.6%, 2nd percentile | 16.9%, 25th percentile | 8.8%, 41st percentile | — | 15.5%, 19th percentile | 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.
- 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.