Connecticut Hospitals Rated First to Worst on Safety: How did Milford 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 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