18 IL Hospitals Ranked In Top 10% For Patient Safety

Eighteen hospitals in Illinois 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.

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The hospitals in Illinois receiving Patient Safety Excellence Awards include 10 hospitals in the top 5 percent nationally:

• UChicago Medicine AdventHealth, Hinsdale
• UChicago Medicine AdventHealth, La Grange
• Advocate Condell Medical Center, Libertyville
  • America's 250 Best
• Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge
  • America's 50 Best
  • America's 100 Best
  • America's 250 Best
• Memorial Hospital, Belleville
  • America's 250 Best
• Northwestern Medicine Central Dupage Hospital, Winfield
• Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, Geneva
• OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center, Rockford
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
• SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital-Centralia

Illinois hospitals in the top 10 percent nationally include the following:

• UChicago Medicine AdventHealth, Bolingbrook
• Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington
  • America's 100 Best
  • America's 250 Best
• Saint Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates
• Carle Health Proctor Hospital, Peoria
• Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville
• Presence Mercy Medical Center, Aurora
• Presence Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston
• St. Mary's Hospital, Kankakee

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 metholodology on healthgrades.com.