North Dakota hospitals
North Dakota hospitals: racial-equity scorecards
44 Medicare-certified hospitals serve North Dakota, represented by the North Dakota 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.
Sanford Health runs a dominant share of North Dakota's inpatient capacity across Fargo and Bismarck. Race-stratified measures are frequently cell-suppressed at the facility level.
The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: Sanford Medical Center (Fargo, Bismarck), and Essentia Health — Fargo. 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 North Dakota
- Sanford Medical Center (Fargo, Bismarck)
- Essentia Health — Fargo
All 44 hospitals in North Dakota
Ashley Medical Center
Ashley
Carrington Health Center
Carrington
Cavalier County Memorial Hospital Association
Langdon
Chi Mercy Health
Valley City · CommonSpirit Health
Chi Oakes Hospital
Oakes · CommonSpirit Health
Chi St Alexius Health Devils Lake
Devils Lake · CommonSpirit Health
Chi St Alexius Health Dickinson
Dickinson · CommonSpirit Health
Chi St Alexius Health Turtle Lake
Turtle Lake · CommonSpirit Health
Chi St Alexius Health Williston
Williston · CommonSpirit Health
Cooperstown Medical Center
Cooperstown
First Care Health Center
Park River
Garrison Memorial Hospital
Garrison
Heart Of America Medical Center
Rugby
Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center
Elgin
Linton Hospital - Cah
Linton
Lisbon Area Health Services
Lisbon
Mckenzie County Healthcare Systems Inc
Watford City
Mountrail County Medical Center Inc
Stanley
Nelson County Health System
Mcville
Northwood Deaconess Health Center
Northwood
Pembina County Memorial Hospital
Cavalier
P H S Indian Hosp At Belcourt-Quentin N Burdick
Belcourt
Presentation Medical Center
Rolla
Sakakawea Medical Center - Cah
Hazen
Sanford Hillsboro
Hillsboro · Sanford Health
Sanford Mayville
Mayville · Sanford Health
Smp Health St Aloisius
Harvey
South Central Health
Wishek
Southwest Healthcare Services
Bowman
Standing Rock Service Unit
Fort Yates,
St Andrew'S Hospital
Bottineau
St Luke'S Hospital
Crosby
Tioga Medical Center
Tioga
Towner County Medical Center
Cando
Trinity Kenmare Community Hospital
Kenmare
Unity Medical Center
Grafton
Essentia Health
Fargo · Essentia Health
Sanford Medical Center Bismarck
Bismarck · Sanford Health
Sanford Medical Center Fargo
Fargo · Sanford Health
West River Regional Medical Center
Hettinger
Altru Hospital
Grand Forks
Jamestown Regional Medical Center
Jamestown
Trinity Hospitals
Minot
Chi St Alexius Health
Bismarck · CommonSpirit Health
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Data sources
- CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u).
- North Dakota Hospital Association — state hospital trade body (https://www.ndha.org/).
- North Dakota Department of Health — Division of Health Facilities — state hospital licensing + oversight (https://www.hhs.nd.gov/health/health-facilities).
- 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: