Pittsburgh-Area Hospital Safety Grades: Spring 2021

Pittsburgh PA

29 April, 2021

2:59 PM

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PITTSBURGH, PA -Eleven southwestern Pennsylvania hospitals received an "A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a nationwide hospital safety analysis. But three received a "C" grade, meaning patients are more likely to die a preventable death at those facilities than those graded higher. The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and safety of American health care, assesses roughly 2,500 hospitals nationwide twice a year. Leapfrog uses up to 28 national performance measures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and information from other supplemental data sources. Taken together, those performance measures produce a single letter grade representing a hospital's overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors. You can read more about the grading system here. What follows are the grades given to Pittsburgh-area hospitals. For more information on individual hospitals, click on the link. Receiving "A" grades: UPMC McKeesport UPMC Mercy UPMC St. Margaret St. Clair UPMC East UPMC Passavant, McCandless Westmoreland Heritage Valley, Sewickley Washington UPMC Passavant, Cranberry Heritage Valley, Beaver Receiving "B" grades: Jefferson Regional Medical Center UPMC Presbyterian West Penn Forbes Mon Valley Receiving "C" grades: UPMC Shadyside Canonsburg Allegheny Valley