37 FL Hospitals Ranked In Top 5% For Patient Safety

Thirty-seven hospitals in Florida were among hundreds across the country recognized for safety and patient experience in a new report.

Healthgrades, an online platform that helps people find and compare doctors, specialists and hospitals, announced Tuesday that 438 hospitals in 40 states met the criteria for its 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award. They represent the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide for patient safety.

The hospitals in Florida receiving Patient Safety Excellence Awards include four hospitals in the top 5 percent nationally:

• AdventHealth, Ocala
• Ascension Sacred Heart, Pensacola
• Doctors Hospital, Coral Gables
• Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, Vero Beach
• ​​HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, Aventura
• HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, Hudson
• HCA Florida Blake Hospital, Bradenton
• HCA Florida Capital Hospital, Tallahassee
• HCA Florida Englewood Hospital, Englewood
• HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital, Port Charlotte
• HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital, Fort Walton Beach
• HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital, Panama City
• HCA Florida JFK Hospital, Atlantis
• HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, Miami
• HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, Lake City
• HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital, Fort Pierce
• HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital, Brooksville
• HCA Florida Ocala Hospital, Ocala
• HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, Orange Park
• HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, Kissimmee
• HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital, Sarasota
• HCA Florida South Shore Hospital, Sun City Center
• HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital, Tampa
• HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital, Port St. Lucie
• HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, Trinity
• HCA Florida Twin Cities Hospital, Niceville
• HCA Florida West Hospital, Pensacola
• HCA Florida Westside Hospital, Plantation
• HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital, Tamarac
• Cape Canaveral Hospital, Cocoa Beach
• Larkin Hospital Palm Springs, Hialeah
• Memorial Hospital, Miramar
• Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital Venice, North Venice
• Hialeah Hospital, Hialeah
• Melbourne Regional Medical Center, Melbourne
• Rockledge Regional Medical Center, Rockledge

Hospitals in the top 10 percent nationally include the following in Florida:

• AdventHealth, New Smyrna Beach
• AdventHealth, Zephyrhills
• Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Jacksonville Beach
• Bethesda Hospital East, Boynton Beach
• Mease Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin
• Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, New Port Richey
• St. Anthony's Hospital, St. Petersburg
• HCA Florida Brandon Hospital, Brandon
• HCA Florida Highlands Hospital, Sebring
• HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital, Sanford
• HCA Florida Largo Hospital, Largo
• HCA Florida Palms West Hospital, Loxahatchee
• HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital, South Pasadena
• HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital, Kissimmee
• Oviedo Medical Center, Oviedo
• Palm Bay Hospital, Palm Bay
• Memorial Hospital, Pembroke Pines
• HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital, Lehigh Acres
• Coral Gables Hospital, Coral Gables
• Palmetto General Hospital, Hialeah
• Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale
• Wellington Regional Medical Center, Wellington
• UF Health the Villages Hospital, The Villages
• AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway, Palm Coast

The Patient Safety Excellence Award is based on an analysis of federal hospital data that evaluates how well hospitals protect patients from serious complications during inpatient care. Healthgrades looked at 13 measures of patient safety, such as infections, surgical complications and other preventable problems.

To qualify for the award, hospitals must meet strict quality standards and show strong performance on most of those safety measures. They also cannot have any reported cases of a foreign object, such as a sponge or surgical tool, being left inside a patient during a procedure. In addition, hospitals must report data on most of the key safety indicators used to evaluate performance.

If all hospitals performed as well as the award winners, 100,819 patient safety events could have been avoided between 2022 and 2024, Healthgrades said in a news release. Patients treated in award-winning facilities were significantly less likely to experience the four most common patient safety accidents and medical errors, which represent a serious, preventable complication and account for 78 percent of all safety events.

In the award-winning hospitals:

• An in-hospital fall resulting in a fracture was 52.4 percent less likely
• A collapsed lung due to a procedure or surgery in or around the chest was 57.5 percent less likely
• A catheter-related bloodstream infection acquired in the hospital was 67.8 percent less likely
• A pressure or bed sore acquired in the hospital was 71.9 percent less likely

View the full Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient list and methodology on Healthgrades.