Health & Fitness
Connecticut Hospitals Rated First to Worst on Safety: How Did Danbury Hospital Do?
New rankings have been issued for each hospital in Connecticut and overall the state's hospitals collectively rank near the bottom.
By Brian McCready
The Hospital Safety Score, which is a public service provided by The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization “committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system,” has handed out its latest hospital safety grades for the spring of 2016.
The Hospital Safety Score examines how well each hospital does at keeping their patients safe from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. Information is compiled from surveys, public data and information from the Center for Disease Control.
They assigned scores to more than 2,500 hospitals nationwide, including 25 hospitals in Connecticut.
The top hospitals, according to the Hospital Safety Score, are found in Vermont (No. 1), Maine (No. 2) , Rhode Island (No. 3), Massachusetts (No. 4), and Minnesota (No. 5).
Connecticut was all the way down at No. 41 on the list, which is based off of which states had the highest percentage of “A” ranked hospitals in its state.
For example, in Connecticut just four of the 25 ranked hospitals earned an “A” safety rating score. By comparison, Connecticut was ranked No. 36 last year.
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According to the Hospital Safety Score, the following are the top-ranked hospitals in Connecticut based on safety scores. Click on the hyperlink for each one to learn in-depth why each hospital received the grade it did.
A
The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich
Griffin Hospital in Derby
Stamford Hospital in Stamford
Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich
B
Middlesex Hospital in Middletown
St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford
Mid State Medical Center in Meriden
University of Connecticut Health Center, John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington
Bristol Hospital in Bristol
St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport
C
Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London
Windham Hospital in Willimantic
Johnson Memorial Medical Center in Stafford Springs
Rockville General Hospital in Vernon Rockville
Hartford Hospital in Hartford
The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain
Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven
Milford Hospital in Milford
Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury
Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury
Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport
Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk
D
Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington
Danbury Hospital in Danbury
*New Milford Hospital was not listed.
The website stated that if a hospital is not listed because:
"Unfortunately, our experts sometimes do not have enough information to issue a fair Safety Score for every hospital. Certain hospitals are exempt from the requirement to publicly report on safety. Additionally, many hospitals are not able to provide data to the federal government because they are too small, or for other reasons Leapfrog experts are studying ways to score them in the future."
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