Massachusetts hospitals
Massachusetts hospitals: racial-equity scorecards
62 Medicare-certified hospitals serve Massachusetts, represented by the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.
The Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) publishes the most detailed state hospital scorecard in the Northeast, including patient-experience scores stratified by race and by payer. Boston Medical Center is the state's largest safety-net teaching hospital.
The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General Brigham), and Cambridge Health Alliance. Each has its own detail page below.
Two editorial notes on scope. First, CMS does not publish a racial-disparity scorecard per-hospital at national scale; what we surface below is the facility's overall CMS rating paired with any race-stratified metric we could find in a primary source (AHRQ Disparities Atlas, a state discharge scorecard, or a published study). Second, we do not rank hospitals as 'worst for Black patients' without a primary-source citation — the legal standard for that claim requires it.
Safety-net systems in Massachusetts
- Boston Medical Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General Brigham)
- Cambridge Health Alliance
All 62 hospitals in Massachusetts
Adcare Hospital Of Worcester Inc
Worcester
Boston Children'S Hospital
Boston
Carney Hospital
Boston
Franciscan Children'S Hospital & Rehab Center
Brighton
Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary -
Boston
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
Nantucket
Nashoba Valley Medical Center
Ayer
North Adams Regional Hospital Corporation
North Adams
Norwood Hospital
Norwood
The Shriners' Hospital For Children - Boston
Boston
Baystate Wing Hospital
Palmer
Brigham And Women Faulkner Hospital
Jamaica Plain · Mass General Brigham
Brigham And Women'S Hospital
Boston · Mass General Brigham
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington
Burlington · Beth Israel Lahey Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston · Baptist Health
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton
Athol Memorial Hospital
Athol
Baystate Franklin Medical Center
Greenfield
Berkshire Medical Center
Pittsfield
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton
Milton · Beth Israel Lahey Health
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham
Needham · Beth Israel Lahey Health
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth
Plymouth · Beth Israel Lahey Health
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston · Beth Israel Lahey Health
Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge
Falmouth Hospital
Falmouth
Martha'S Vineyard Hospital Inc
Oak Bluffs
Mount Auburn Hospital
Cambridge
North Shore Medical Center -
Salem
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital
Brockton
Southcoast Hospitals Group
Fall River
Anna Jaques Hospital
Newburyport
Boston Medical Center
Boston
Cape Cod Hospital
Hyannis
Cooley Dickinson Hospital Inc,The
Northampton
Emerson Hospital -
W Concord
Fairview Hospital
Great Barrington
Heywood Hospital -
Gardner
Lawrence General Hospital
Lawrence
Milford Regional Medical Center
Milford
Northeast Hospital Corporation
Beverly
Saint Anne'S Hospital
Fall River
South Shore Hospital
South Weymouth
Sturdy Memorial Hospital
Attleboro
Tufts Medical Center
Boston · Tufts Medicine
Umass Memorial Medical Center/University Campus
Worcester
Winchester Hospital
Winchester
Baystate Noble Hospital
Westfield
Boston Medical Center-Brighton
Brighton
Brown University Health Morton Hospital
Taunton
Holy Family Hospital
Methuen
Holyoke Medical Center
Holyoke
Lowell General Hospital
Lowell
Melrosewakefield Healthcare
Melrose
Mercy Medical Ctr
Springfield
St Vincent Hospital
Worcester
Umass Memorial Healthalliance Hospitals
Leominster
Umass Memorial Healthcare-Marlborough Hospital
Marlborough
Umass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital
Southbridge
Baystate Medical Center
Springfield
Good Samaritan Medical Center
Brockton
Metrowest Medical Center
Framingham
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Data sources
- CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u).
- Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association — state hospital trade body (https://www.mhalink.org/).
- Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) — state hospital licensing + oversight (https://www.chiamass.gov/).
- State hospital scorecard (https://www.chiamass.gov/hospital-profiles/).
- AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr).
- CDC Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System state releases (cdc.gov/pmss).
- The Leapfrog Group hospital safety grades (leapfroggroup.org).
Data refreshed: