Pittsburgh Hospital Safety Grades: Fall 2023

PITTSBURGH, PA — Twelve hospitals in the Pittsburgh region received an "A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a new nationwide hospital safety analysis. But seven our received a "C" grade and five were graded a "D," 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 nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide twice a year. Leapfrog uses more than 30 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.

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

A Grades

• Allegheny General, North Side

• UPMC Presbyterian, Oakland

• UPMC Shadyside

• UPMC St. Margaret, Aspinwall

• UPMC Passavant, McCandless

• Heritage Valley Sewickley

• Forbes, Monroeville

• UPMC Passavant, Cranberry

• Washington

• Heritage Valley, Beaver

• Butler Memorial

• East Liverpool City

B Grades

• UPMC Mercy, Uptown

• West Penn, Bloomfield

• St. Clair Health, Mt. Lebanon

• UPMC East, Monroeville

• Allegheny Valley, Harrison

• Excela Health Westmoreland, Latrobe

C Grades

• Latrobe

• Heritage Valley, Kennedy

• Jefferson Regional

• UPMC McKeesport

• Canonsburg General

• Excela Health Frick, Mt. Pleasant

D Grades

• Steubenville Trinity Medical Center

• Penn Highlands Mon Valley, Monongahela

• Weirton Medical Center

• Armstrong County Memorial, Kittanning

• Uniontown