The Leapfrog Group released its spring 2021 Hospital Safety Grades April 29, assigning "A" through "F" letter grades to more than 2,700 general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. for patient safety performance.
Leapfrog has assigned letter grades to hospitals based on their ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections since spring 2012. Twenty-seven hospitals have achieved 19 consecutive "A" grades, the highest possible grade, since the launch.
The data for this safety grades update are from immediately before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Leapfrog said. Still, the organization said some measures used in this spring's update can be a proxy for the safety of care provided to coronavirus patients.
Here are the 27 hospitals that have achieved 19 consecutive "A" grades.
Arizona
Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix)
California
French Hospital Medical Center (San Luis Obispo)
Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center (San Luis Obispo)
Colorado
Rose Medical Center (Denver)
Florida
AdventHealth Daytona Beach
Memorial Hospital Miramar
Illinois
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield)
OSF St. Mary Medical Center (Galesburg)
University of Chicago Medical Center
Massachusetts
Beverly Hospital
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (Boston)
Saint Anne's Hospital (Fall River)
Michigan
Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital (Commerce Township)
Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor)
Mississippi
Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle (Columbus)
North Carolina
Rex Hospital (Raleigh)
New Jersey
Saint Barnabas Medical Center (Livingston)
Ohio
OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital
OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital (Delaware)
Texas
St. David's Medical Center (Austin)
Virginia
Inova Loudoun Hospital (Leesburg)
Sentara CarePlex Hospital (Hampton)
Sentara Leigh Hospital (Norfolk)
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
Washington
Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
To view a list of the 10 hospitals that received "F's" from Leapfrog this fall, click here.