24 MI Hospitals Earn ‘A’ Grades, 3 Get ‘D’ In Latest Leapfrog Ratings

MICHIGAN — Hospitals in Michigan and nationwide made significant improvements in preventing a “disturbing” increase in hospital infections during the coronavirus pandemic, The Leapfrog Group said with the release Monday of its Fall 2023 Hospital Safety Grades Report.

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 how well they prevent medical errors, accidents and infections. Overall, the report shows hospitals significantly reduced infections after the pandemic spike, but patient-reported experiences declined for the second year in a row.

Among 82 Michigan hospitals evaluated in the report, 24 received the gold-standard “A” safety grade. Another 27 earned a “B,” 27 earned a “C” and three earned a “D.” One hospital received an F.

Michigan hospitals earning “A” grades are:

• Ascension Borgess Hospital, Kalamazoo
• Ascension St John Hospital, Detroit
• Ascension St Joseph Hospital, Tawas City
• Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe
• Chelsea Hospital, Chelsea
• Corewell Health Big Rapids Hospital, Big Rapids
• Corewell Health Greenville Hospital, Greenville
• Corewell Health Lakeland Hospitals Niles Hospital, Niles
• Corewell Health Lakeland Hospitals St. Joseph Hospital, St. Joseph
• Corewell Health Ludington Hospital, Ludington
• Corewell Health Zeeland Hospital, Zeeland
• Garden City Hospital, Garden City
• Henry Ford Health West Bloomfield Hospital, West Bloomfield
• Holland Hospital, Holland
• Lake Huron Medical Center, Port Huron
• Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital, Cadillac
• Munson Medical Center, Traverse City
• MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena, Alpena
• ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital, Adrian
• ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital, Coldwater
• Trinity Health Livingston Hospital, Howell
• Trinity Health Oakland Hospital, Pontiac
• Trinty Health Saint Mary's - Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids
• University of Michigan Health - Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor

Michigan hospitals earning “B” grades are:

• Ascension Genesys Hospital, Grand Blanc
• Ascension Providence Hospital, Novi Campus, Novi
• Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital, Rochester
• Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield Campus, Southfield
• Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills, Farmington Hills
• Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Royal Oak
• Beaumont Hospital, Trenton, Trenton
• Beaumont Hospital, Troy, Troy
• Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo
• Dickinson Hospital - Iron Mountain (AKA Marshfield Medical Center - Dickinson), Iron Mountain
• Henry Ford Health Jackson Hospital, Jackson
• Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
• McLaren Central Michigan, Mount Pleasant
• McLaren Port Huron, Port Huron
• MyMichigan Medical Center Alma, Alma
• MyMichigan Medical Center Midland, Midland
• MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch, West Branch
• Munson Healthcare Grayling Hospital, Grayling
• Oaklawn Hospital, Marshall
• Sparrow Carson Hospital, Carson City
• Sparrow Hospital and Health System, Lansing
• Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital, Grand Rapids
• Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids
• Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital, Ypsilanti
• Trinity Health Livonia, Livonia
• Trinity Health Muskegon Hospital, Muskegon
• University of Michigan Health - West, Wyoming

Michigan hospitals earning “C” grades are:

• Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Madison Heights Campus, Madison Heights
• Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Warren Campus, Warren
• Ascension St Mary's Hospital, Saginaw
• Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn, Dearborn
• Beaumont Hospital, Taylor, Taylor
• Beaumont Hospital, Wayne, Wayne
• Bronson Battle Creek, Battle Creek
• Covenant Medical Center, Saginaw
• DMC Harper University Hospital, Detroit
• DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, Commerce Township
• Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, Clinton Township
• Henry Ford Health Wyandotte Hospital, Wyandotte
• Hillsdale Hospital, Hillsdale
• Hurley Medical Center, Flint
• McLaren Bay Region, Bay City
• McLaren Greater Lansing, Lansing
• McLaren Lapeer Region, Lapeer
• McLaren Macomb, Mount Clemens
• McLaren Northern Michigan, Petoskey
• Memorial Healthcare, Owosso
• Munson Healthcare Otsego Memorial Hospital, Gaylord
• MyMichigan Medical Center Sault, Sault Sainte Marie
• ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital, Monroe
• Three Rivers Health, Three Rivers
• Trinity Health Grand Haven, Grand Haven
• UP Health System - Marquette, Marquette
• UP Health System - Portage, Hancock

Michigan hospitals earning “D” grades are:

• DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit
• DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital, Detroit
• McLaren Oakland, Pontiac

Michigan hospitals earning “F” grades are:

• McLaren Flint, Flint

Patch reached out to the hospitals with grades "D" and "F" and will update this story when we hear back.

The Leapfrog Group grades hospitals twice a year. In the fall report, the first report using post-pandemic data, 30 percent of hospitals nationwide earned an “A,” 24 percent earned a “B,” 39 percent earned a “C,” 7 percent earned a “D,” and fewer than 1 percent earned an “F.”

The 10 states with the highest number of “A” hospitals are Utah, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Connecticut, Montana, Tennessee, Florida and Texas.

States that had no “A” hospitals are Vermont, Wyoming, Delaware and North Dakota, as well as Washington, D.C.

More than 85 percent of hospitals saw decreases in the three most dangerous infections — MRSA, central-line bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

• 19 percent improved in all three infection measures;
• 66 percent improved in at least one infection measure;
• 16 percent continued to worsen or did not improve.

“Now that we have pre- and post-pandemic data for patient safety measures, we are encouraged by the improvement in infections and applaud hospitals for reversing the disturbing infection spike we saw during the pandemic,” Leapfrog president and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release.

However, Binder said the continued decline in patient experiences is “deeply concerning.” Hospitals in all states have seen a significant decline in reported patient experiences since the fall of 2021, the report said.

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.