Hospital Racial Equity Index
Hospital racial-equity scorecards, state by state
Every Medicare-certified US hospital, scored by CMS Hospital Compare, with a racial-equity overlay layered on top. We start from the public CMS data — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure groups, ownership, ER + birthing-friendly flags — then pair it with AHRQ disparity data, CDC PMSS state maternal-mortality figures, and state scorecards where they exist.
Where a hospital publishes its own equity report (Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, Mass General Brigham, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic), we link to the primary source. Where CMS, AHRQ, or a peer-reviewed study documents a disparity by race at a specific facility, we surface it. We don't fabricate equity claims about individual hospitals — that standard matters editorially and legally.
All 50 states & DC
Alabama
Alabama Hospital Association
Alaska
Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association
Arizona
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Arkansas
Arkansas Hospital Association
California
California Hospital Association
Colorado
Colorado Hospital Association
Connecticut
Connecticut Hospital Association
Delaware
Delaware Healthcare Association
Florida
Florida Hospital Association
Georgia
Georgia Hospital Association
Hawaii
Healthcare Association of Hawaii
Idaho
Idaho Hospital Association
Illinois
Illinois Health and Hospital Association
Indiana
Indiana Hospital Association
Iowa
Iowa Hospital Association
Kansas
Kansas Hospital Association
Kentucky
Kentucky Hospital Association
Louisiana
Louisiana Hospital Association
Maine
Maine Hospital Association
Maryland
Maryland Hospital Association
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association
Michigan
Michigan Health and Hospital Association
Minnesota
Minnesota Hospital Association
Mississippi
Mississippi Hospital Association
Missouri
Missouri Hospital Association
Montana
Montana Hospital Association
Nebraska
Nebraska Hospital Association
Nevada
Nevada Hospital Association
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Hospital Association
New Jersey
New Jersey Hospital Association
New Mexico
New Mexico Hospital Association
New York
Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS)
North Carolina
North Carolina Healthcare Association
North Dakota
North Dakota Hospital Association
Ohio
Ohio Hospital Association
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Hospital Association
Oregon
Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems
Pennsylvania
Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Hospital Association of Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Carolina Hospital Association
South Dakota
South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations
Tennessee
Tennessee Hospital Association
Texas
Texas Hospital Association
Utah
Utah Hospital Association
Vermont
Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems
Virginia
Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association
Washington
Washington State Hospital Association
West Virginia
West Virginia Hospital Association
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Hospital Association
Wyoming
Wyoming Hospital Association
District of Columbia
District of Columbia Hospital Association
Methodology & data sources
The canonical source for every facility on this site is the CMS Hospital Compare Hospital General Information dataset, refreshed quarterly by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. We include acute-care, critical-access, and children's hospitals (approximately 4,500 facilities); we exclude psychiatric, long-term, Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, and Rural Emergency Hospitals because those categories sit outside the Hospital Compare overall star rating program.
Overall star rating (1–5) is CMS's composite across the five measure groups: mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience (HCAHPS), and timely & effective care. It is not stratified by patient race. Facilities that don't report enough measure groups to qualify for a star rating are flagged 'Not rated' rather than scored.
The racial-equity overlay pulls from four sources, in order of coverage: the AHRQ National Healthcare Disparities Atlas (state-level Black readmission rate, 35 states published, 16 suppressed for small-n); CDC Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (state-level Black maternal mortality ratio per 100k live births, 34 states published); state discharge scorecards from 20 states that publish beyond CMS (notably California HCAI, New York SPARCS, Massachusetts CHIA, Maryland HSCRC, Pennsylvania PHC4, Illinois Hospital Report Card, Washington WHQ, Minnesota MHQR); and The Leapfrog Group hospital safety grades where licensed for citation.
For any hospital where no race-stratified measure is published, we report the overall CMS data faithfully, cite the absence of race data as an absence, and don't interpolate. Refresh cadence: quarterly for CMS, annually for AHRQ + PMSS, monthly for Leapfrog.
Data refreshed: