New Connecticut Hospital Safety Grades Released For 2017

How safe is your hospital? New grades released Wednesday by The Leapfrog Group will tell you just that. The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit founded by employers and health care providers, ranked 27 Connecticut hospitals as part of its spring 2017 safety grades.

The hospitals were given a letter grade from A through F based on several factors. Of the 27 hospitals that were graded in the Nutmeg state, 14.8 percent received an A. None received an F, but there was one that was graded a D. (To sign up for free, local breaking news alerts from more than 100 Connecticut communities click here.)

To come up with the grades, Leapfrog looks at medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections. The goal is to determine what a patient's risk of further injury or infection is if they visit a certain hospital.

According to the organization, more than 1,000 Americans die each day from preventable hospital errors. Hospitals given a B rating by Leapfrog had a 9 percent higher risk of avoidable death than A hospitals. That number jumps to 35 percent in C hospitals and is 50 percent higher in D and F hospitals.

At the state level, Connecticut was ranked 38th in the nation. Maine was ranked No. 1. Hawaii, Oregon, Wisconsin and Idaho rounded out the top five.

Here are the grades the Connecticut hospitals received: You can also compare this spring's rankings with the 2016 grades.

A
Griffin Hospital in Derby

University of Connecticut Health Center, John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington

St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford

Sharon Hospital in Sharon

Middlesex Hospital in Middletown

B
The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich

Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam

Stamford Health in Stamford

Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich

Milford Hospital in Milford

Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London

C

Yale-New Haven Saint Raphael Campus in New Haven

Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury

Johnson Memorial Medical Center in Stafford Springs

Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport

MidState Medical Center in Meriden

Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven

Windham Hospital in Willimantic

Hartford Hospital in Hartford

The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain

Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington

Bristol Hospital in Bristol

St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport

Danbury Hospital in Danbury

New Milford Hospital in New Milford

D

Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury

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*The website stated that if a hospital is not listed, it's 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."

• Click here to go directly to the Hospital Safety Score website.

Brian McCready and Kara Seymour contributed to this report

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