Did your hospital get an A or an F?<\/p>\n
Leapfrog gave letter grades to nearly 3,000 hospitals across 50 states plus Washington, D.C. based on a range of patient safety measures.<\/p>\n
Hospitals in California ranked 6th in the nation<\/a> \u2014 tied with Rhode Island’s \u2014 for their ability to protect patients from medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections. Nearly 45% of the 286 hospitals in the state received an “A” grade<\/a> this fall, an increase from the 42.8% reported in Leapfrog’s spring rankings.<\/p>\n In the San Diego area, 12 hospitals achieved an “A” grade, six earned a “B” and one received a “C” grade.<\/p>\n Here are the grades for San Diego hospitals for Fall 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n This year’s fall grading from the patient safety organization suggests hospitals with higher grades tend to be part of a larger health system, which is a network of health care facilities that are owned or managed under a single parent organization.<\/p>\n The report shows 94% of hospitals that achieved an “A” grade were affiliated with a health system.<\/p>\n More than 830 hospitals earned an A grade, with the highest percentages found in Utah, Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut and North Carolina. Iowa, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming had no hospitals with an “A” grade.<\/p>\n Leapfrog uses data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and information from other supplemental data sources to rank their hospitals, according to their website.<\/p>\n Based on that data, Leapfrog measures 22 aspects of patient health and safety. Then, Leapfrog says researchers weigh the evidence, opportunity for improvement and impact of each measure to calculate a grade. If data in in more than six categories is missing, Leapfrog won\u2019t rank that hospital.<\/p>\n Leapfrog says you can use the ratings to find hospitals that prioritize patient safety, meaning hospitals got better grades if they had track records for preventing hospital-acquired infections, hand washing, training doctors, communicating about prescriptions and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did your hospital get an A or an F? Leapfrog gave letter grades to nearly 3,000 hospitals across…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":379372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-379371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115550552476023203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}