Connecticut Hospitals Safety Scores: How Did Greenwich Hospital Do?

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.

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 Maine (No. 1), Massachusetts (No. 2) , Florida (No. 3), Virginia (No. 4) , and New Jersey (No. 5).

Connecticut was all the way down at No. 36 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.

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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

University of Connecticut Health Center, John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington

St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport

Stamford Hospital in Stamford

Griffin Hospital in Derby

B

Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam

The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich

St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford

Bristol Hospital in Bristol

C

Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London

Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester

Middlesex Hospital in Middletown

Hartford Hospital in Hartford

MidState Medical Center in Meriden

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

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington

Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk

Danbury Hospital in Danbury

Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich

D

Windham Hospital in Willimantic

Johnson Memorial Medical Center in Stafford Springs

Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport

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