Pittsburgh-Area Hospital Safety Grades: Spring 2020

PITTSBURGH, PA - Thirteen southwestern Pennsylvania hospitals received an "A" grade for

preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a nationwide hospital safety analysis. But two received a "C" grade, meaning patients are more likely to die a preventable death at those facilities than those graded higher.

The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and safety of American health care, assesses roughly 2,500 hospitals nationwide twice a year. Leapfrog uses up to 28 national performance measures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and information from other supplemental data sources.

Taken together, those performance measures produce a single letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors. You can read more about the grading system here.

What follows are the grades given to Pittsburgh-area hospitals. For more information on individual hospitals, click on the link.

A Grade

• UPMC McKeesport

• Jefferson Regional Medical Center

• UPMC Presbyterian

• UPMC Mercy

• West Penn Hospital

• UPMC St. Margaret

• St. Clair Hospital

• Forbes Hospital

• UPMC Passavant - McCandless

• Heritage Valley Sewickley

• Allegheny Valley Hospital

• UPMC Passavant - Cranberry

• Butler Memorial Hospital

B Grade

• UPMC Shadyside

• Allegheny General Hospital

• UPMC East

• Monongahela Valley Hospital

• Canonsburg General Hospital

• Westmoreland Hospital

• Latrobe Hospital

• Heritage Valley Beaver

• Washington Hospital

C Grade

• Ohio Valley General

• Armstrong County Memorial Hospital