NY Hospitals Rated First to Worst on Safety: How did St. John's Riverside Do?

The Hospital Safety Score, which is a public service provided by The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization “committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system,” has handed out its latest hospital safety grades for the spring of 2016.

The Hospital Safety Score examines how well each hospital does at keeping their patients safe from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. Information is compiled from surveys, public data and information from the Center for Disease Control.

They assigned scores to more than 2,500 hospitals nationwide, including 143 hospitals in New York.

The nation's top hospitals, according to the Hospital Safety Score, are found in Vermont (No. 1), Maine (No. 2) , Rhode Island (No. 3), Massachusetts (No. 4), and Minnesota (No. 5).

New York was ranked No. 44 in the country, as 'A' grades were handed out to just 9.8 percent.

In the Hudson Valley, 'A's were handed out to just one:

• Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco. View the full Score

Receiving a 'B' grade:

• HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley - Mary's Ave. Campus in Kingston. View the full Score
• New York-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt Manor. View the full Score
• Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel. View the full Score
• White Plains Hospital, White Plains. View the full Score

'C's were handed out to:

• Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, New Rochelle. View the full Score
• New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville. View the full Score
• Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. View the full Score
• Nyack Hospital, Nyack. View the full Score
• Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown. View the full Score
• St John's Riverside Hospital - Dobbs Ferry Pavilion, Dobbs Ferry. View the full Score
• St John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers. View the full Score
• St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital Cornwall Campus, Cornwall. View the full Score
• St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital Newburgh Campus. Newburgh. View the full Score
• Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. View the full Score

'D' grades went to:

• HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley - Broadway Campus, Kingston. View the full Score
• MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. View the full Score
• Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla. View the full Score

And an 'F' was handed out to:

• St. Joseph's Medical Center of Yonkers, Yonkers. View the full Score

Don’t see your hospital?

HospitalSafety.org says it sometimes does not have enough information to issue a fair Safety Score for every hospital. Additionally, many hospitals are not able to provide data to the federal government because they are too small, or for other reasons. Military and veterans' hospitals are not issued a Hospital Safety Score due to lack of available data. Leapfrog experts are studying ways to score them in the future.