Leapfrog grades 2,901 hospitals ‘A’ to ‘F.’ How did yours fare?

The Leapfrog Group last week released its Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, giving about 30% of 2,901 hospitals—the largest number of facilities ever represented in the rankings—an ‘A’ grade.

Cheat sheet: See how Leapfrog calculates its ratings

Methodology

For the fall 2021 report, Leapfrog assigned “A” to “F” letter grades to 2,901 general acute-care hospitals in the United States based on how effective the facilities were at preventing “medical errors, accidents, injuries, and infections that kill or harm patients,” according to the company’s press release.

Hospitals were assessed on more than 30 evidence-based patient-safety measures—measures that for the first time include post-operative sepsis, blood leakage, and kidney injury. According to the methodology,...