CMS Care Compare · latest release (July 2026)
Readmissions, mortality, infections and patient experience for the 73 hospitals in the five-county Houston area, benchmarked against all 467 Texas hospitals and the national distribution.
Among roughly 3,000 U.S. hospitals reporting 30-day heart-failure mortality, Houston Methodist Hospital sits at the very bottom of the distribution — the best outcome in the Houston area, and among the best in the country.
Six measures that anchor every hospital quality review, one row per hospital. Sorted by the share of patients who would definitely recommend the hospital.
| Hospital | Pneumonia readmissionlower is better · % | Heart-failure mortalitylower is better · % | Central-line infectionslower is better · SIR | Sepsis bundlehigher is better · % | Would recommendhigher is better · % | Patient-experience starshigher is better |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Hermann Houston Physicians Hospital | – | – | – | – | 87 | 5 |
| Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital | 17.8 | 9.1 | 0.589 | 65 | 84 | 4 |
| Houston Methodist the Woodlands Hospital | 15.9 | 7.6 | 0.357 | 88 | 84 | 4 |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital | 17.6 | 9.3 | 0.469 | 77 | 83 | 4 |
| Texas Orthopedic Hospital | – | – | – | – | 83 | 4 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | 15.3 | 6 | 0.363 | 60 | 82 | 4 |
| Sugar Land Surgical Hospital LLP | – | – | – | – | 82 | – |
| St Luke's Hospital at the Vintage | 16.3 | 10.4 | 0 | 64 | 81 | 3 |
| CHI St Lukes Lakeside Hospital | – | – | – | – | 81 | 4 |
| Tops Surgical Specialty Hospital | – | – | – | – | 80 | 4 |
| Houston Methodist Sugarland Hospital | 17.3 | 6.9 | 0.826 | 75 | 80 | 4 |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital | 17.6 | 6.1 | 0.183 | 82 | 79 | 4 |
| Sweeny Community Hospital | 16.8 | – | – | 43 | 79 | – |
| St Luke's the Woodlands Hospital | 16.8 | 11.1 | 0.527 | 64 | 78 | 4 |
| Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital | 16.7 | 7.7 | 0 | 74 | 78 | 4 |
| Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital Kingwood | – | – | – | – | 73 | – |
| University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston | 16.5 | 8.6 | 0.231 | 35 | 72 | 3 |
| Houston VA Medical Center | 17.9 | 7 | 0.313 | – | 71 | 4 |
| Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital | 16.3 | 8.1 | 0.638 | 41 | 71 | 3 |
| Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center | 17.2 | 8.2 | 0.317 | 39 | 71 | 3 |
| Memorial Hermann Hospital System | 18 | 9.9 | 0.507 | 43 | 71 | 3 |
| Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital | 17.9 | 10.3 | 0.595 | 39 | 71 | 3 |
| Harris Health | 16.7 | 9.7 | 1.142 | 49 | 71 | 3 |
| Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital | 16.8 | 9.9 | 0.531 | 46 | 69 | 3 |
| Womans Hospital of Texas,the | – | – | 0.553 | 83 | 69 | 3 |
| Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital | 17.4 | 12.1 | 0.15 | 63 | 67 | 3 |
| St Luke's Patients Medical Center | 14.7 | 10.8 | 0 | 60 | 67 | 2 |
| CHI St Luke's Health Brazosport | 17.3 | 11.5 | 0.921 | 71 | 66 | 3 |
| Baylor St Lukes Medical Center | 17.1 | 7.2 | 0.77 | 70 | 66 | 2 |
| Ad Hospital East, LLC | – | – | – | – | 64 | – |
| HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast | 17 | 12 | 0.629 | 82 | 64 | 2 |
| HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball | 18.5 | 8.8 | 0 | 81 | 63 | 2 |
| St Luke's Sugar Land Hospital | 16.4 | 8.7 | 0 | 69 | 63 | 2 |
| HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center | 18.1 | 9.1 | 0.585 | 63 | 63 | 2 |
| HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland | 17.8 | 11.1 | 0.898 | 73 | 61 | 2 |
| Townsen Memorial Hospital | – | – | – | – | 61 | – |
| HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake | 18.4 | 8.1 | 0.269 | 71 | 60 | 2 |
| Oakbend Medical Center | 16.7 | 10.7 | 0.968 | 59 | 59 | 2 |
| HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest | 18.1 | 9.9 | 0.248 | 74 | 59 | 2 |
| HCA Houston Healthcare Conroe | 18.3 | 9.8 | 0.702 | 75 | 56 | 2 |
| HCA Houston Healthcare West | 16.9 | 8.8 | 0.225 | 67 | 56 | 2 |
| St Joseph Medical Center | 17 | – | 0 | 61 | 55 | 2 |
| The Woodlands Specialty Hospital | – | – | – | – | 55 | – |
| HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood | 18.3 | 8.8 | 0.531 | 68 | 53 | 1 |
| Altus Houston Hospital, LP | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Aspire Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Atrium Medical Center | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Baytown Medical Center LP | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Behavioral Hospital of Bellaire | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cleveland Emergency Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cypress Creek Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| East Houston Medical Center | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Elite Hospital Kingwood | – | – | – | 23 | – | – |
| Harris County Psychiatric Center | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Healthbridge Childrens's Hospital of Houston | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Houston Behavioral Healthcare Hospital LLC | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Kingwood Pines Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Legent North Houston Surgical Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Lone Star Behavioral Health Cypress | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Medical Behavioral Hospital of Clear Lake, LLC | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Oceans Behavioral Hospital of Katy | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Oceans Behavioral Hospital of Pasadena | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| St Michaels Medical Hospital LLC | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sun Behavioral Houston | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Surgery Specialty Hospitals of America SE Houston | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Texas Childrens Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Voyages Behavioral Health of Conroe | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Voyages Behavioral Health of Sugar Land | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| West Oaks Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Westpark Springs LLC | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Woodland Springs | – | – | – | – | – | – |
at or better than the Texas average worse than the Texas average · bar length = position within the Texas range, oriented so longer is always better · “–” = not reported (CMS suppresses small denominators) · scroll the table for all 73 hospitals
30-day pneumonia readmission rate for 258 Texas hospitals on one axis, lower is better. Houston-area hospitals in blue, the rest of Texas in gray. The benchmark lines are computed from the hospital-level rows, not loaded from a separate table.
Ten HCAHPS survey questions for 44 Houston-area hospitals. Each cell is the share of patients who gave the best possible answer; darker is better.
For each measure, the share of Texas hospitals doing better than the national average. The patient-experience star rating is the one measure where Texas trails.