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Hospitals in Wisconsin with the lowest CABG surgery death rate
18 Wisconsin hospitals ranked by CABG surgery death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: SSM Health St Mary's Hospital - Madison, St Vincent Hospital, SSM Health St Agnes Hospital-Fond Du Lac. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | CABG surgery 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 | Stroke death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
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| National average | 2.4% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | SSM Health St Mary's Hospital - Madison | 1.5%, 96th percentile | 10.3%, 92nd percentile | 14.5%, 5th percentile | 17.0%, 24th percentile | 10.4%, 11th percentile | 9.6%, 86th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare SSM Health St Mary's Hospital - Madison |
| 2 | St Vincent Hospital | 1.6%, 93rd percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 15.2%, 3rd percentile | 16.2%, 35th percentile | 8.6%, 46th percentile | 14.6%, 13th percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | Compare St Vincent Hospital |
| 3 | SSM Health St Agnes Hospital-Fond Du Lac | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 10.8%, 83rd percentile | 15.5%, 2nd percentile | 16.2%, 35th percentile | 9.3%, 28th percentile | 9.8%, 84th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | Compare SSM Health St Agnes Hospital-Fond Du Lac |
| T4 | Aurora Medical Center | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 9.1%, 85th percentile | 14.1%, 67th percentile | 6.4%, 96th percentile | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare Aurora Medical Center |
| T4 | Aspirus Wausau Hospital | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 10.0%, 81st percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Aspirus Wausau Hospital |
| T4 | Bellin Memorial Hospital | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 11.5%, 62nd percentile | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | 18.9%, 9th percentile | 11.3%, 4th percentile | 8.7%, 95th percentile | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare Bellin Memorial Hospital |
| T4 | Waukesha Memorial Hospital | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 12.4%, 29th percentile | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 8.1%, 61st percentile | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Waukesha Memorial Hospital |
| 8 | University Of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics Authority | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 8.5%, 91st percentile | 9.3%, 99th percentile | 6.8%, 91st percentile | 10.7%, 68th percentile | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare University Of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics Authority |
| T9 | Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire Hospital | 2.3%, 49th percentile | 10.3%, 92nd percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 12.7%, 85th percentile | 7.0%, 88th percentile | 9.9%, 82nd percentile | 13.6%, 97th percentile | Compare Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire Hospital |
| T9 | Aurora St Lukes Medical Center | 2.3%, 49th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 10.1%, 68th percentile | 10.7%, 97th percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | 10.4%, 73rd percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Aurora St Lukes Medical Center |
| T11 | Aurora BayCare Medical Center | 2.4%, 44th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 12.8%, 18th percentile | 14.2%, 66th percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | 11.6%, 51st percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Aurora BayCare Medical Center |
| T11 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital | 2.4%, 44th percentile | 10.7%, 85th percentile | 9.5%, 79th percentile | 12.8%, 84th percentile | 6.5%, 95th percentile | 9.7%, 85th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital |
| 13 | Froedtert South Inc. | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 13.2%, 11th percentile | 14.9%, 4th percentile | 13.2%, 80th percentile | 10.2%, 12th percentile | 15.2%, 11th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Froedtert South Inc. |
| 14 | Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center | 2.6%, 33rd percentile | 12.6%, 23rd percentile | 12.8%, 18th percentile | 13.0%, 82nd percentile | 8.6%, 46th percentile | 12.2%, 40th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center |
| T15 | Ascension Columbia St Marys Hospital Milwaukee | 2.7%, 28th percentile | 12.3%, 32nd percentile | 10.4%, 62nd percentile | 13.8%, 72nd percentile | 7.9%, 66th percentile | 9.5%, 88th percentile | 13.7%, 97th percentile | Compare Ascension Columbia St Marys Hospital Milwaukee |
| T15 | Marshfield Medical Center | 2.7%, 28th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 13.7%, 73rd percentile | 7.2%, 85th percentile | 11.0%, 62nd percentile | 16.9%, 1st percentile | Compare Marshfield Medical Center |
| 17 | Thedacare Regional Medical Center - Appleton Inc | 3.1%, 16th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 17.5%, 0th percentile | 15.9%, 39th percentile | 9.4%, 26th percentile | 15.0%, 12th percentile | 13.1%, 99th percentile | Compare Thedacare Regional Medical Center - Appleton Inc |
| 18 | Mercy Health System Corp | 4.6%, 2nd percentile | 13.3%, 10th percentile | 9.2%, 84th percentile | 13.9%, 70th percentile | 8.9%, 38th percentile | 12.7%, 33rd percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Mercy Health System Corp |
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.
- CABG surgery death rate
- 30-day death rate for CABG surgery 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.
- 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.