Pittsburgh Hospital Safety Grades: Spring 2023

PITTSBURGH, PA — Thirteen Western Pennsylvania hospitals received an "A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a new nationwide hospital safety analysis. But seven our received a "D" grade and one was 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 on the link.

A Grades

• Allegheny General, North Side

• UPMC Presbyterian, Oakland

• UPMC Shadyside, Shadyside

• St. Clair, Mt. Lebanon

• UPMC St. Margaret, Aspinwall

• UPMC Passavant, McCandless

• Heritage Valley, Sewickley

• UPMC East, Monroeville

• Forbes Regional, Monroeville

• UPMC Passavant, Cranberry

• Washington, Washington

• Heritage Valley, Beaver

• Butler Memorial, Butler

B Grades

• UPMC Mercy, Uptown

• West Penn, Bloomfield

• Allegheny Valley, Harrison

• Excela Health, Latrobe

C Grades

• Excela Health Frick, Mt. Pleasant

• Excela Health Westmoreland, Greensburg

• Canonsburg General, Canonsburg

• Heritage Valley, Kennedy

• Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Jefferson Hills

• UPMC McKeesport, McKeesport

D Grade

• Penn Highlands Mon Valley, Monongahela