MI's Safest Hospitals: New Ratings Released

MICHIGAN — Several Michigan hospitals have made improvements in protecting patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections while others have fallen short, according to the Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades report released Wednesday.

The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit health care watchdog group, used an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.

In Michigan, 25 hospitals received an A, 28 hospitals received a B, 23 hospitals received a C and one hospital received a D grade. Zero hospitals received an F.

Here are the ratings, according to Leapfrog:

A

Spectrum Health Zeeland Community Hospital - Zeeland

ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital - Adrian

Bronson Methodist Hospital - Kalamazoo

Spectrum Health Lakeland Medical Center - St. Joseph

ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital - Coldwater

Lake Huron Medical Center - Lake Huron

Spectrum Health United Hospital - Greenville

University of Michigan Health - Ann Arbor

Dickinson County Healthcare System - Iron Mountain

Munson Healthcare Grayling Hospital - Grayling

McLaren Central Michigan - Mount Pleasant

Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital - Cadillac

Henry Ford Health Jackson Hospital - Jackson

Spectrum Health Big Rapids Hospital - Big Rapids

Munson Medical Center - Traverse City

Ascension St Joseph Hospital - Tawas City

UP Health System - Portage - Hancock

Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital - Ludington

Covenant Medical Center - Saginaw

Spectrum Health Lakeland Niles Hospital - Niles

North Ottawa Community Hospital - Grand Rapids

McLaren Port Huron - Port Huron

Garden City Hospital - Garden City

Chelsea Hospital - Chelsea

Henry Ford Health West Bloomfield Hospital - West Bloomfield

B

Mercy Health Muskegon - Muskegon

Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield Campus - Southfield

Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital - Grand Rapids

Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital - Grand Rapids

Ascension Providence Hospital, Novi Campus - Novi

UP Health System - Marquette - Marquette

Trinity Health, Grand Rapids - Grand Rapids

Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital - Howell

Holland Hospital - Holland

Ascension St Mary's Hospital - Saginaw

Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe - Grosse Pointe

McLaren Northern Michigan - Petoskey

Ascension Borgess Hospital - Kalamazoo

Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak - Royal Oak

Henry Ford Health Wyandotte Hospital - Wyandotte

Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills - Farmington Hills

Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor - Ypsilanti

Ascension St John Hospital - Detroit

Beaumont Hospital, Trenton - Trenton

McLaren Lapeer Region - Lapeer

Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Warren Campus - Warren

Ascension Genesys Hospital - Grand Blanc

Oaklawn Hospital - Marshall

Sparrow Hospital & Health System - Lansing

University of Michigan Health - West - Wyoming

Ascension River District Hospital - East China

Beaumont Hospital, Troy - Troy

DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital - Commerce Township

C

Trinity Health St. Mary Mercy Livonia - Livonia

Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn - Dearborn

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland - Pontiac

Hillsdale Hospital - Hillsdale

McLaren Bay Region - Bay City

Henry Ford Health Macomb Hospital - Clinton Township

Henry Ford Health Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit

Bronson Battle Creek - Battle Creek

ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital - Monroe

DMC Harper University Hospital - Detroit

Memorial Healthcare - Owosso

Hurley Medical Center - Flint

Munson Healthcare Otsego Memorial Hospital - Gaylord

McLaren Flint - Flint

Beaumont Hospital, Wayne - Wayne

McLaren Greater Lansing - Lansing

McLaren Oakland - Pontiac

Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Madison Heights Campus - Madison Heights

McLaren Macomb - Mount Clemens

MyMichigan Medical Center Sault - Sault Sainte Marie

Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital - Rochester

Beaumont Hospital, Taylor- Taylor

DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital - Detroit

D

DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital - Detroit

A spokesperson for DMC was not immediately available. Patch will update this story when the hospital responds.

With the release of its fall report, The Leapfrog Group has analyzed hospital safety data for a decade. Most hospitals have improved over time under more public scrutiny, Leapfrog Group President and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release.

“For a long time, the health care community tried to improve safety, but progress stalled,” Binder said. “The big difference over this decade is that for the first time, we publicly reported each hospital’s record on patient safety, and that galvanized the kind of change we all hoped for.

"It’s not enough change, but we are on the right track," she said.

Notably, hospitals reduced what are called “never events” — accidents and errors that never should have happened, the release said. Incidents of falls and trauma and incidents in which objects were unintentionally left in a patient’s body during surgery were down 25 percent, the watchdog group said.

Also, according to the report, progress on the number of patients treated for health care-associated infections declined to pre-pandemic levels.

Nearly two dozen hospitals have received straight-A reports every year since the Leapfrog Group began its safety grades in 2012. They are:

• Arizona: Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix.
• California: French Hospital Medical Center, San Luis Obispo; Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim; Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, San Luis Obispo.
• Colorado: Rose Medical Center, Denver.
• Florida: AdventHealth Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach.
• Illinois: Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst; Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield; University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago.
• Massachusetts: Beverly Hospital, Beverly; Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River.
• Michigan: University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor.
• Mississippi: Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle, Columbus.
• North Carolina: Rex Hospital, Inc., Raleigh.
• Ohio: OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital, Dublin;OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware.
• Texas: St. David's Medical Center, Austin.
• Virginia: Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg; Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Hampton; Sentara Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia; Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, Williamsburg.
• Washington: Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle.

Search for your hospital’s fall 2022 safety grade and read more about the methodology.