FL’s Safest Hospitals: New Rankings Released (Courtesy of Patch) — Several Florida hospitals have made improvements in protecting patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections while others have fallen short, according to the Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades report.
The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit health care watchdog group, used an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.
In Florida, 72 hospitals received an A, 53 hospitals received a B, 55 hospitals received a C and three hospitals received a D grade. No hospitals received an F.
Here are the A ratings, according to Leapfrog:
A
- AdventHealth Daytona Beach
- AdventHealth DeLand
- AdventHealth East Orlando
- AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach
- AdventHealth North Pinellas
- AdventHealth Orlando
- AdventHealth Tampa
- AdventHealth Winter Park
- AdventHealth Zephyrhills
- Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
- Baptist Health Doctors Hospital, Coral Gables
- Baptist Health West Kendall, Miami
- Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Jacksonville Beach
- Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Jacksonville
- Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Fernandina Beach
- Baptist Medical Center South, Jacksonville
- Bartow Regional Medical Center, Bartow
- Broward Health Coral Springs, Coral Springs
- Cape Coral Hospital, Cape Coral
- Flagler Hospital, St. Augustine
- Gulf Coast Medical Center, Fort Myers
- HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, Hudson
- HCA Florida Brandon Hospital, Brandon
- HCA Florida Capital Hospital, Tallahassee
- HCA Florida Englewood Hospital, Englewood
- HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital, Fort Walton Beach
- HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital, Panama City
- HCA Florida Largo Hospital, Largo
- HCA Florida North Florida Hospital, Gainesville
- HCA Florida Ocala Hospital, Ocala
- HCA Florida Palms West Hospital, Loxahatchee
- HCA Florida Raulerson Hospital, Okeechobee
- HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital, Sarasota
- HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital, Port St. Lucie
- HCA Florida St. Petersburg Hospital, St. Petersburg
- HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, Trinity
- HCA Florida West Hospital, Pensacola
- HCA Florida West Marion Hospital, Ocala
- HCA Florida Westside Hospital, Plantation
- Healthpark Medical Center, Fort Myers
- Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale
- Larkin Community Hospital, South Miami
- Larkin Community Hospital – Palm Springs Campus, Hialeah
- Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers
- Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville
- Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor
- Mease Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin
- Memorial Hospital Pembroke, Pembroke Pines
- Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater
- Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, New Port Richey
- NCH Baker Hospital, Naples
- NCH North Naples Hospital, Naples
- Orlando Health Central Hospital, Ocoee
- Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Orlando
- Orlando Health – Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando
- Orlando Health South Lake Hospital, Clermont
- Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota
- St. Anthony’s Hospital, St. Petersburg
- St. Joseph’s Hospital, Tampa
- St. Joseph’s Hospital North, Lutz
- St. Joseph’s Hospital South, Riverview
- St. Vincent’s Medical Center Southside, Jacksonville
- Viera Hospital, Melbourne
With the release of its fall report, The Leapfrog Group has analyzed hospital safety data for a decade. Most hospitals have improved over time under more public scrutiny, Leapfrog Group President and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release.
“For a long time, the health care community tried to improve safety, but progress stalled,” Binder said. “The big difference over this decade is that for the first time, we publicly reported each hospital’s record on patient safety, and that galvanized the kind of change we all hoped for.
“It’s not enough change, but we are on the right track,” she said.
Notably, hospitals reduced what are called “never events” — accidents and errors that never should have happened, the release said. Incidents of falls and trauma and incidents in which objects were unintentionally left in a patient’s body during surgery were down 25 percent, the watchdog group said.
Also, according to the report, progress on the number of patients treated for health care-associated infections declined to pre-pandemic levels.
Search for your hospital’s fall 2022 safety grade and read more about the methodology.