Massachusetts hospitals: 84 Medicare-certified, source-cited CMS quality data.
Fonteum tracks 84 Medicare-certified hospitals in Massachusetts, each carrying its CMS overall star rating, hospital type, ownership, and emergency-services status. Every facility links to a per-hospital page signed to the CMS Hospital General Information dataset, snapshot 2026-05-07.
Reviewed by Jennifer Montecillo, MD, medical reviewer. Non-practicing medical reviewer. Last reviewed: June 2026 · Next review: December 2026.
Editorial note: Massachusetts has dense local journalism + AARP coverage of hospital quality; Fonteum's contribution is the per-facility provenance layer, not editorial commentary.
Massachusetts hospitals at a glance
Type, ownership, emergency-services availability, and CMS overall-rating distribution across Massachusetts’s 84 Medicare-certified hospitals.
By hospital type
| Acute Care Hospitals | 55 |
| Psychiatric | 19 |
| Critical Access Hospitals | 4 |
| Acute Care - Veterans Administration | 3 |
| Childrens | 3 |
By ownership
| Voluntary non-profit - Private | 43 |
| Proprietary | 23 |
| Voluntary non-profit - Other | 6 |
| Government - State | 5 |
| Veterans Health Administration | 3 |
By CMS overall ★
| 5 ★ | 7 |
| 4 ★ | 15 |
| 3 ★ | 16 |
| 2 ★ | 12 |
| 1 ★ | 3 |
Hospitals in Massachusetts, ranked by CMS overall rating
53 of 84 Massachusetts hospitals carry a CMS overall star rating (state average 3.21 of 5). Select any hospital to open its provenance page.
Massachusetts hospitals — FAQ
- How many Medicare-certified hospitals are in Massachusetts?
- 84 Medicare-certified hospitals operate in Massachusetts as of the CMS Hospital General Information snapshot (2026-05-07). 53 carry a CMS overall star rating, averaging 3.21 of 5.
- What kinds of hospitals does Massachusetts have?
- Massachusetts's hospitals break down by CMS hospital type (acute care, critical access, children's, psychiatric and more) and by ownership (government, proprietary, and voluntary non-profit). 71.4% offer emergency services. The breakdown tables on this page aggregate every facility CMS lists in the state.
- What does the CMS overall star rating mean?
- The CMS overall hospital rating (1–5 stars) summarizes performance across measure groups such as mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, and timely & effective care. CMS does not rate every hospital; facilities below the reporting threshold show no rating and are excluded from the state average rather than counted as zero.
- Where does this hospital data come from and how current is it?
- All columns trace to the CMS Hospital General Information dataset (PDC xubh-q36u), source-modified 2026-01-26, redistributed unaltered as US-Government-Works public domain. Each hospital links to a provenance page; cross-check any facility at Medicare.gov.
Compare other facility types
Every Fonteum Care Compare module carries the same per-facility provenance for Massachusetts and the rest of the country.