Winchester Hospital Gets "A" Rating in Hospital Study

WINCHESTER, MA - The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit founded by employers and health-care providers, announced its Fall 2016 hospital safety rankings Monday, a measure of how safe a hospital is for patients.

At the local level, Winchester received an A grade. The hospital has scored an A safety grade in every grading term since Fall of 2014.

Click here to see the full assessment for Winchester Hospital

The safety grade is based on factors, such as how often patients at a given hospital acquire infections or other conditions during their stay, or how well-staffed a hospital's intensive care unit may be.

According to the Leapfrog ranking, Massachusetts' safest hospitals (those receiving "straight A's" over the past three years) are: Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis; Harrington Memorial Hospital, Southbridge; Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River; Beverly Hospital, Beverly; Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield; Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, Brockton; Holy Family Hospital, Methuen; Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton; Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Boston; and Addison Gilbert Hospital, Gloucester.

You can find a full description of the data and methodology used in determining the grades here.

Alison Bauter contributed to this report.

Image via CC BY-SA 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8505100>