Premier Announces 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals

Modern Healthcare program recognizes hospitals delivering strong cardiovascular care outcomes

Feb. 3, 2026 at 9:39am

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Premier, Inc. has announced the latest findings from the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals® program, which identifies the top-performing cardiovascular hospitals in the United States. The program, powered by Premier, analyzes public data to benchmark hospital performance across various measures, including clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, extended outcomes, and patient experience.

Why it matters

The 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals program provides data-driven insights that hospital leaders can use to understand performance variation and improve care for heart patients nationwide. By highlighting the top-performing hospitals, the program aims to drive improvements in cardiovascular care quality and efficiency across the healthcare system.

The details

According to the analysis, the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals outperformed their peer group on all 21 measures evaluated, including a 56% difference in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) inpatient mortality, a 10% difference in complication rates between CABG and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) patients, and a 19.6% difference in average cost per case for heart failure patients. The study estimates that if all U.S. hospitals performed at the level of the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals, it could result in over 14,000 additional lives saved, 27,000 fewer complications for bypass and angioplasty patients, and more than $2 billion in potential savings.

  • The 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals list was published by Modern Healthcare on February 3, 2026.

The players

Premier, Inc.

A leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company that unites providers, suppliers, and payers to make healthcare better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence, and faster with novel technologies.

David Zito

President of Performance Services at Premier.

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What they’re saying

“Cardiovascular care is one of the most complex and impactful service lines in healthcare. The 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals program highlights organizations delivering strong outcomes while providing hospital leaders with meaningful benchmarks to help improve care.”

— David Zito, President of Performance Services

The takeaway

The 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals program demonstrates that there are hospitals delivering exceptional cardiovascular care outcomes, which can serve as models for other healthcare providers to emulate in order to improve the quality and efficiency of heart patient care nationwide.