ICYMI: How Bay Area Hospitals Rank in Patient Safety

When it comes to patient safety, some of the Tampa Bay area’s biggest hospitals ranked the poorest regionally with Tampa General, Lakewood Ranch, Bayfront Health and Memorial Hospital all joining several others in earning ”C” grades.

The good news, however, is that unlike some other hospitals around the country, none of the Tampa Bay area’s facilities ranked in a recently released report earned a failing grade.

The Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group’s twice annual Hospital Safety Score is conducted to analyze medical facilities throughout the nation to determine which ones rank the best in procedures meant to ensure patient well-being during their stays. The “Hospital Safety Score grades hospitals on how safe they keep their patients from errors, injuries, accidents and infections,” the group’s website states.

The group derives its scores using a number of sources and assigns grades twice yearly to more than 2,500 hospitals across the country, including 165 in Florida.

“The Hospital Safety Score uses national performance measures from the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey and Health Information Technology Supplement,” the group explains.

Here’s how Tampa Bay area hospitals covered in the report stacked up:

South Florida Baptist Hospital

• 301 N. Alexander St., Plant City
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

Florida Hospital Zephyrhills

• 7050 Gall Blvd., Zephyrhills
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

Brandon Regional Hospital

• 119 Oakfield Drive, Brandon
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

South Bay Hospital

• 4016 State Road 674, Sun City Center
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

Lakewood Ranch Medical Center

• 8330 Lakewood Ranch Blvd., Bradenton
• Spring 2015 Grade: C

Doctors Hospital of Sarasota

• 7531 Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

Florida Hospital Tampa

• 3100 E. Fletcher Ave., Tampa
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

Tampa General Hospital

• 1 Tampa General Circle, Tampa
• Spring 2015 Grade: C

Sarasota Memorial Hospital

• 1700 S. Tamiami Trial, Sarasota
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

Memorial Hospital of Tampa

• 2901 Swann Ave., Tampa
• Spring 2015 Grade: C

St. Joseph’s Hospital

• 3001 W. Martin Luther King Blvd.
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

Florida Hospital Carrollwood

• 7171 N. Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

St. Joseph’s Hospital North

• 4211 Van Dyke Road, Lutz
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

Tampa Community Hospital

• 6001 Webb Road, Tampa
• Spring 2015 Grade: C

Blake Medical Center

• 2020 59th St. W., Bradenton
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

Bayfront Health St. Petersburg

• 701 Sixth St. S., St. Petersburg
• Spring 2015 Grade: C

St. Anthony’s Hospital

• 1200 Seventh Ave. N., St. Petersburg
• Spring 2015 Grade: C

Medical Center of Trinity

• 9330 State Road 54, Trinity
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

Northside Hospital

• 6000 49th St. N., St. Petersburg
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

Mease Countryside Hospital

• 3231 McMullen-Booth Road, Safety Harbor
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point

• 14000 Fivay Road, Hudson
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

St. Petersburg General Hospital

• 6500 38th Ave. N., St. Petersburg
• Spring 2015 Grade: C

Palms of Pasadena Hospital

1501 Pasadena Ave. S., St. Petersburg

Spring 2015 Grade: C

Morton Plant North Bay Hospital

• 6600 Madison St., New Port Richey
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

Florida Hospital North Pinellas

• 1395 S. Pinellas Ave., Tarpon Springs
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

Mease Dunedin Hospital

• 601 Main St., Dunedin
• Spring 2015 Grade: A

Largo Medical Center

201 14th St. S.W., Largo

Spring 2015 Grade: A

Morton Plant Hospital

• 300 Pinellas St., Clearwater
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

Largo Medical Center – Indian Rocks

• 2025 Indian Rocks Road, Largo
• Spring 2015 Grade: B

To find out more about the survey and hospital safety, visit the Hospital Safety Score’s website.

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