Safest Hospitals In Illinois: Full List

Thirty-two Illinois hospitals received an A in hospital safety, according to new grades released by The Leapfrog Group on Tuesday.

The hospital safety grades are released by the nonprofit group twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. The grades released on Tuesday showed that five states — Oregon, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Wisconsin and Idaho — showed significant improvement since the safety grades were first implemented in 2012.

Illinois was not among the "most improved states," and in fact, was among eight states with hospitals that received an "F" grade, alongside California, Washington D.C., Florida, Maryland, Mississippi, New York and Tennessee.

Roseland Community Hospital, located on Chicago's Far South Side, was one of 15 hospitals nationwide to earn an "F" rating. The hospital's CEO disputes that rating, saying some of the data used in the Leapfrog assessment are not representative of current conditions at Roseland, the Chicago Tribune reported.

"Errors and infections in hospitals are the third leading cause of death in America, and people deserve to know which of their hospitals are best at preventing them," Leah Binder, president and CEO of Leapfrog, said in a press release.

Medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections are taken into account by Leapfrog when calculating the grades. The goal of the rankings is to determine a patient's risk of further injury or infection if they visit a certain hospital.

Leapfrog assigns A, B, C, D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States. Leapfrog explains that the safety grade includes 27 measures that are taken together to produce a single letter grade representing a hospital's overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.

The group uses performance measures from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (You can read more about the letter grades here.)

Here are the Illinois hospitals that received an A:

1. Advocate Condell Medical Center, Libertyville
2. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge
3. AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center Hinsdale
4. AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center La Grange
5. AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center Elk Grove Village
6. AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center Hoffman Estates
7. Centegra Hospital, McHenry
8. Edward Hospital, Naperville
9. Elmurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst
10. Harrisburg Medical Center, Harrisburg
11. HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham
12. Loyola Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park
13. McDonough District Hospital, Macomb
14. Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights
15. Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest
16. Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield
17. Northwest Medicine Delnor Hospital, Geneva
18. Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb
19. OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington
20. OSF St. Mary Medical Center, Galesburg
21. Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center d/b/a OSF St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Ottawa
22. Palos Community Hospital, Palos Heights
23. Presence Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago
24. Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago
25. Riverside Medical Center, Kankakee
26. Rush-Copley Medical Center, Aurora
27. Rush Oak Park Hospital, Oak Park
28. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
29. Silver Cross Hospital, New Lenox
30. St. Margaret's Hospital, Spring Valley
31. University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago
32. West Suburban Medical Center, Oak Park

Click here to see how every Illinois hospital was ranked.

Leapfrog notes that of the 2,632 hospitals graded in Tuesday's update, 832 earned an "A," 662 a "B," 964 a "C," 159 a "D" and 15 an "F."

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