Pittsburgh Hospital Safety Grades: Spring 2022

Pittsburgh PA

10 May, 2022

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PITTSBURGH, PA — Thirteen Western Pennsylvania hospitals received an "A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a nationwide hospital safety analysis. But four received a "C" grade and one was graded a "D," 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. The latest ratings reflect care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic reversed years of progress in patient safety, according to research from Leapfrog. The pandemic has had a negative effect on "health care delivery at every level and setting, from staffing shortages to increased infections to the very care patients receive," according to the Adult Patient Experience at Acute Care Hospitals survey, also released Tuesday by Leapfrog. 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 UPMC Presbyterian, Oakland UPMC Shadyside, Shadyside St. Clair Hospital, Mt. Lebanon UPMC St. Margaret, Aspinwall Heritage Valley, Sewickley UPMC East, Monroeville UPMC Passavant, Cranberry Washington Hospital, Washington Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg Butler Memorial Hospital, Butler Latrobe Hospital, LatrobeUPMC Passavant, McCandless B grades UPMC Mercy, Uptown West Penn Hospital, Bloomfield Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Jefferson UPMC McKeesport, McKeesport Forbes Hospital, Monroeville Canonsburg General Hospital, Canonsburg Heritage Valley Beaver, Beaver C grades Allegheny Valley Hospital, Harrison Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning D grades Heritage Valley, Kennedy Be the first to know what's happening in your community and region. With a free Patch subscription, you'll always be up to date on local and state news: https://patch.com/subscribe.