Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Wisconsin with the lowest COPD death rate
63 Wisconsin hospitals ranked by COPD 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 | COPD death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Pneumonia 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 | 8.6% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| T51 | Aspirus Wausau Hospital | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 11.8%, 49th percentile | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 10.0%, 81st percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Aspirus Wausau Hospital |
| T51 | St Josephs Community Hospital West Bend | 9.7%, 20th percentile | — | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 15.3%, 48th percentile | — | 12.1%, 42nd percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare St Josephs Community Hospital West Bend |
| T53 | Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh | 9.8%, 18th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 17.2%, 21st percentile | — | 11.3%, 56th percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh |
| T53 | St Croix Regional Medical Center | 9.8%, 18th percentile | — | 10.2%, 66th percentile | 15.7%, 42nd percentile | — | 13.6%, 22nd percentile | 14.5%, 79th percentile | Compare St Croix Regional Medical Center |
| 55 | Marshfield Medical Center - Eau Claire | 10.0%, 15th percentile | 10.7%, 85th percentile | 12.2%, 27th percentile | 18.0%, 14th percentile | — | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Marshfield Medical Center - Eau Claire |
| T56 | Beloit Health System | 10.1%, 14th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 14.1%, 7th percentile | 15.8%, 40th percentile | — | 21.6%, 1st percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | Compare Beloit Health System |
| T56 | Richland Hospital | 10.1%, 14th percentile | — | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 15.3%, 48th percentile | — | — | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Richland Hospital |
| 58 | Froedtert South Inc. | 10.2%, 12th percentile | 13.2%, 11th percentile | 14.9%, 4th percentile | 13.2%, 80th percentile | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 15.2%, 11th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Froedtert South Inc. |
| T59 | SSM Health St Mary's Hospital - Madison | 10.4%, 11th percentile | 10.3%, 92nd percentile | 14.5%, 5th percentile | 17.0%, 24th percentile | 1.5%, 96th percentile | 9.6%, 86th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare SSM Health St Mary's Hospital - Madison |
| T59 | Aspirus Riverview Hospital & Clinics Inc | 10.4%, 11th percentile | — | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 14.6%, 60th percentile | — | 12.4%, 37th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Aspirus Riverview Hospital & Clinics Inc |
| 61 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center | 10.9%, 7th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 12.0%, 30th percentile | 15.9%, 39th percentile | — | 13.2%, 26th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | Compare St Marys Hospital Medical Center |
| 62 | Bellin Memorial Hospital | 11.3%, 4th percentile | 11.5%, 62nd percentile | 15.1%, 3rd percentile | 18.9%, 9th percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 8.7%, 95th percentile | 14.2%, 89th percentile | Compare Bellin Memorial Hospital |
| 63 | Vernon Memorial Hospital | 11.8%, 3rd percentile | — | — | 14.1%, 67th percentile | — | — | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Vernon Memorial 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.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD 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.
- 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.