FL’s Safest Hospitals: New Rankings Released

Updated: 10:43 a.m., Wednesday

FLORIDA — Several Florida hospitals have made improvements in protecting patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections while others have fallen short, according to the Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades report released Wednesday.

The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit health care watchdog group, used an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.

In Florida, 72 hospitals received an A, 53 hospitals received a B, 55 hospitals received a C and three hospitals received a D grade. No hospitals received an F.

Here are the ratings, according to Leapfrog:

A

• AdventHealth Altamonte Springs
• AdventHealth Carrollwood
• AdventHealth Celebration
• AdventHealth Dade City
• AdventHealth Daytona Beach
• AdventHealth DeLand
• AdventHealth East Orlando
• AdventHealth Fish Memorial, Orange City
• AdventHealth Lake Placid
• AdventHealth Lake Wales
• AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach
• AdventHealth North Pinellas
• AdventHealth Orlando
• AdventHealth Sebring
• AdventHealth Tampa
• AdventHealth Wesley Chapel
• AdventHealth Winter Park
• AdventHealth Zephyrhills
• Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
• Baptist Health Doctors Hospital, Coral Gables
• Baptist Health West Kendall, Miami
• Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Jacksonville Beach
• Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, Jacksonville
• Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Fernandina Beach
• Baptist Medical Center South, Jacksonville
• Bartow Regional Medical Center, Bartow
• Broward Health Coral Springs, Coral Springs
• Cape Coral Hospital, Cape Coral
• Flagler Hospital, St. Augustine
• Gulf Coast Medical Center, Fort Myers
• HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, Hudson
• HCA Florida Brandon Hospital, Brandon
• HCA Florida Capital Hospital, Tallahassee
• HCA Florida Englewood Hospital, Englewood
• HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital, Fort Walton Beach
• HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital, Panama City
• HCA Florida Largo Hospital, Largo
• HCA Florida North Florida Hospital, Gainesville
• HCA Florida Ocala Hospital, Ocala
• HCA Florida Palms West Hospital, Loxahatchee
• HCA Florida Raulerson Hospital, Okeechobee
• HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital, Sarasota
• HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital, Port St. Lucie
• HCA Florida St. Petersburg Hospital, St. Petersburg
• HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, Trinity
• HCA Florida West Hospital, Pensacola
• HCA Florida West Marion Hospital, Ocala
• HCA Florida Westside Hospital, Plantation
• Healthpark Medical Center, Fort Myers
• Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale
• Larkin Community Hospital, South Miami
• Larkin Community Hospital – Palm Springs Campus, Hialeah
• Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers
• Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville
• Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor
• Mease Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin
• Memorial Hospital Pembroke, Pembroke Pines
• Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater
• Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, New Port Richey
• NCH Baker Hospital, Naples
• NCH North Naples Hospital, Naples
• Orlando Health Central Hospital, Ocoee
• Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Orlando
• Orlando Health – Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando
• Orlando Health South Lake Hospital, Clermont
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota
• St. Anthony’s Hospital, St. Petersburg
• St. Joseph’s Hospital, Tampa
• St. Joseph’s Hospital North, Lutz
• St. Joseph’s Hospital South, Riverview
• St. Vincent’s Medical Center Southside, Jacksonville
• Viera Hospital, Melbourne

B

• AdventHealth Apopka
• AdventHealth Kissimmee
• AdventHealth Ocala
• AdventHealth Palm Coast
• AdventHealth Waterman, Tavares
• Baptist Health Bethesda Hospital East, Boynton Beach
• Baptist Health Homestead Hospital, Homestead
• Baptist Hospital, Pensacola
• Broward Health Imperial Point, Fort Lauderdale
• Broward Health North, Deerfield Beach
• Cape Canaveral Hospital, Cocoa Beach
• Cleveland Clinic Hospital Weston, Weston
• Coral Gables Hospital, Coral Gables
• Desoto Memorial Hospital, Arcadia
• Gulf Breeze Hospital, Gulf Breeze
• HCA Florida Blake Hospital, Bradenton
• HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital, Port Charlotte
• HCA Florida JFK North Hospital, West Palm Beach
• HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, Miami
• HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, Lake City
• HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital, Sanford
• HCA Florida Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville
• HCA Florida Northside Hospital, St. Petersburg
• HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital, Brooksville
• HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, Orange Park
• HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, Kissimmee
• HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital, St. Petersburg
• HCA Florida Putnam Hospital, Palatka
• HCA Florida South Shore Hospital, Sun City Center
• Jupiter Medical Center, Jupiter
• Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, Lakewood Ranch
• Lower Keys Medical Center, Key West
• Melbourne Regional Medical Center, Melbourne
• Memorial Hospital Miramar, Miramar
• Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood
• Memorial Regional Hospital South, Hollywood
• North Okaloosa Medical Center, Crestview
• Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital, Longwood
• Oviedo Medical Center, Oviedo
• Physicians Regional Healthcaare System – Collier Boulevard, Naples
• Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast, Miramar Beach
• Santa Rosa Medical Center, Milton
• ShorePoint Health Port Charlotte, Port Charlotte
• ShorePoint Health Venice, Venice
• South Florida Baptist Hospital, Plant City
• Steward Hialeah Hospital, Hialeah
• Steward Sebastian River Medical Center, Sebastian
• St. Mary’s Medical Center, West Palm Beach
• St. Vincent’s Medical Center Clay County, Middleburg
• Tampa General Hospital, Tampa
• UF Health Jacksonville, Jacksonville
• UF Health North, Jacksonville
• Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven

C

• AdventHealth Heart of Florida, Davenport
• Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital Bay, Panama City
• Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside, Jacksonville
• Baptist Health Bethesda Hospital West, Boynton Beach
• Baptist Health Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami
• Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton
• Baptist Health South Miami Hospital, South Miami
• Bayfront Health St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg
• Bravera Health Brooksville, Brooksville
• Bravera Health Seven Rivers, Crystal River
• Bravera Health Spring Hill, Spring Hill
• Broward Health Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale
• Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, Vero Beach
• Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital, Stuart
• Cleveland Clinic Martin South Hospital, Stuart
• Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital, Port St. Lucie
• Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach
• Florida Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale
• Good Samaritan Medical Center, West Palm Beach
• HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, Aventura
• HCA Florida Citrus Hospital, Inverness
• HCA Florida Highlands Hospital, Sebring
• HCA Florida JFK Hospital, Atlantis
• HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital, Fort Pierce
• HCA Florida Mercy Hospital, Miami
• HCA Florida Northwest Hospital, Margate
• HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital, Kissimmee
• HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital, Tampa
• HCA Florida Twin Cities Hospital, Niceville
• HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital, Tamarac
• Holmes Regional Medical Center, Melbourne
• Jackson Hospital, Marianna
• Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami
• Jackson North Medical Center, North Miami Beach
• Jackson South Medical Center, Miami
• Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Lakeland
• Lakeside Medical Center, Belle Glade
• Lehigh Regional Medical Center, Lehigh Acres
• Manatee Memorial Hospital, Bradenton
• Memorial Hospital West, Pembroke Pines
• Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach
• North Shore Medical Center, Miami
• Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud
• Palm Bay Hospital, Palm Bay
• Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Palm Beach Gardens
• Palmetto General Hospital, Hialeah
• Parrish Medical Center, Titusville
• Physicians Regional Healthcare System – Pine Ridge, Naples
• Rockledge Regional Medical Center, Rockledge
• ShorePoint Health Punta Gorda, Punta Gorda
• UF Health Leesburg Hospital, Leesburg
• UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville
• UF Health The Villages Hospital, The Villages
• Wellington Regional Medical Center, Wellington
• West Boca Medical Center, Boca Raton

D

• Halifax Health Medical Center, Daytona Beach
• Halifax Health Medical Center – Port Orange
• Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, Tallahassee

With the release of its fall report, The Leapfrog Group has analyzed hospital safety data for a decade. Most hospitals have improved over time under more public scrutiny, Leapfrog Group President and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release.

“For a long time, the health care community tried to improve safety, but progress stalled,” Binder said. “The big difference over this decade is that for the first time, we publicly reported each hospital’s record on patient safety, and that galvanized the kind of change we all hoped for.

“It’s not enough change, but we are on the right track,” she said.

Notably, hospitals reduced what are called “never events” — accidents and errors that never should have happened, the release said. Incidents of falls and trauma and incidents in which objects were unintentionally left in a patient’s body during surgery were down 25 percent, the watchdog group said.

Also, according to the report, progress on the number of patients treated for health care-associated infections declined to pre-pandemic levels.

Nearly two dozen hospitals have received straight-A reports every year since the Leapfrog Group began its safety grades in 2012. They are:

• Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix
• French Hospital Medical Center, San Luis Obispo; Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim; Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, San Luis Obispo
• Rose Medical Center, Denver
• AdventHealth Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach.
• Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst; Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield; University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago
• : Beverly Hospital, Beverly; Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River
• University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor
• Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle, Columbus
• Rex Hospital, Inc., Raleigh
• OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital, Dublin;OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware
• St. David's Medical Center, Austin,
• Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg; Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Hampton; Sentara Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia; Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, Williamsburg
• Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle

Search for your hospital’s fall 2022 safety grade and read more about the methodology.