Mississippi Is the Only State With Negative Hospital Performance on Every Mortality Measure, Analysis Finds

A state-by-state analysis of federal hospital quality data across 20 measures found that most hospitals perform about the same as national benchmarks, but the exceptions cluster in a handful of states. Pneumonia showed the widest gap between stronger and weaker hospitals. United States – Nov. 13, 2026 – Coates & Johnson PLLC has released a new analysis of hospital complication and death rates by state, examining 20 quality-of-care measures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Conducted in partnership with data visualization firm 1Point21 Interactive, the study compared the share of each state’s hospitals rated better or worse than national benchmarks.

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