St. Vincent Hospital Gets 'A' Rating in Hospital Study

WORCESTER, 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, St. Vincent Hospital received an A grade, a grade the hospital has consistently maintained in this study back to 2013. The hospital scored an A in the Spring 2016 ratings, an A in the fall 2015 ratings, and an A in spring 2015. Prior to 2015, the hospital received an A in the fall of 2014, A in the spring of 2014, and a C in the fall of 2013.

UMass Memorial Medical Center-Memorial Campus also received a C grade. The hospital scored a C in the Spring 2016 ratings, a B in the fall 2015 ratings, and a C in spring 2015. Prior to 2015, the hospital received a C in the fall of 2014, C in the spring of 2014, a B in the fall of 2013, and an A in the spring of 2013.

Click here to see the full assessment for UMass Memorial Medical Center-University Campus here.

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 and Dan Libon contributed to this report.

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