St. Clair Hospital Fall 2021 Safety Grade

Upper St. Clair PA

10 November, 2021

11:49 AM

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PITTSBURGH PA — Sixteen southwestern Pennsylvania hospitals received an "A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a nationwide hospital safety analysis. But six 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 nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide twice a year. Leapfrog uses more than 30 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. What follows are the grades given to Pittsburgh-area hospitals. For more information on individual hospitals, click on the link. A Grades Allegheny General Hospital, North Side West Penn Hospital, Bloomfield UPMC St. Margaret, near Aspinwall St. Clair Hospital, Upper St. Clair UPMC Passavant, McCandless UPMC McKeesport, McKeesport Heritage Valley, Sewickley UPMC East, Monroeville Forbes Hospital Monroeville UPMC Passavant, Cranberry Washington Hospital, Washington Westmoreland Hospital Greensburg Heritage Valley Beaver, Beaver Butler Memorial Hospital, Butler Excela Health, Mt. Pleasant Washington Health System Greene, Waynesburg B Grades UPMC Mercy, Uptown UPMC Presbyterian, Oakland UPMC Shadyside, Shadyside Latrobe Hospital, Latrobe Uniontown Hospital, Hospital C Grades Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Jefferson Hills Canonsburg General, Canonsburg Allegheny Valley Hospital, Harrison Monongahela Valley Hospital, Monongahela Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning Highlands Hospital, Canonsburg D Grades Heritage Valley, Kennedy