Hospital Safety Report Gives High Grade to South Shore Hospital

How safe is South Shore Hospital? New grades released Wednesday by The Leapfrog Group will tell you just that. The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit founded by employers and healthcare providers, ranked 60 Massachusetts hospitals as part of its Spring 2017 safety grades.

The hospitals were given a letter grade from A through F based on several factors. More than half of the 60 Massachusetts hospitals that were graded - 31 - received an A. None received a grade lower than a C.

Weymouth-based South Shore Hospital received an A.

To come up with the grades, Leapfrog looks at medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections. The goal is to determine what a patient's risk of further injury or infection is if they visit a certain hospital.

According to the organization, more than 1,000 Americans die each day from preventable hospital errors. Hospitals given a B rating by Leapfrog had a 9 percent higher risk of avoidable death than A hospitals. That number jumps to 35 percent in C hospitals.

Here is a look at the hospitals which received A grades. (Visit the full list to learn more about individual rankings and see the full list.)

• Addison Gilbert Hospital - Gloucester
• Baystate Franklin Medical Center - Greenfield
• Baystate Noble Hospital - Westfield
• Berkshire Medical Center - Pittsfield
• Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Needham
• Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth
• Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton
• Beverly Hospital
• Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital - Boston
• Cape Cod Hospital - Hyannis
• Charlton Memorial Hospital - Fall River
• Emerson Hospital - Concord
• Hallmark Health System Melrose-Wakefield Hospita - Melrose
• Harrington Memorial Hospital - Southbridge
• Holyoke Medical Center
• Lowell General Hospital - Main Campus
• Lowell General Hospital - Saints Campus
• Marlborough Hospital
• Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston
• Milford Regional Medical Center
• Mount Auburn Hospital - Cambridge
• Nashoba Valley Medical Center - Ayer
• Newton-Wellesley Hospital - Newton
• Saint Anne's Hospital - Fall River
• Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital
• South Shore Hospital - Weymouth
• St Vincent Hospital - Worcester
• St. Luke's Hospital - New Bedford
• Sturdy Memorial Hospital - Attleboro
• Tobey Hospital - Wareham
• Winchester Hospital

Kara Seymour and Mike Carraggi contributed to this report