Virginia hospitals
Virginia hospitals: racial-equity scorecards
81 Medicare-certified hospitals serve Virginia, represented by the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.
Virginia Health Information (VHI) publishes the state hospital data clearinghouse, including discharge data. VCU is Richmond's flagship safety-net teaching hospital and the primary Level I trauma center for Central Virginia.
The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: VCU Medical Center (Richmond), UVA Medical Center (Charlottesville), and Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. 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 Virginia
- VCU Medical Center (Richmond)
- UVA Medical Center (Charlottesville)
- Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
All 81 hospitals in Virginia
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Data sources
- CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u).
- Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association — state hospital trade body (https://www.vhha.com/).
- Virginia Department of Health — Office of Licensure and Certification — state hospital licensing + oversight (https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/licensure-and-certification/).
- State hospital scorecard (https://www.vhi.org/).
- 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: