Pittsburgh-Area Hospital Safety Grades: Spring 2021

PITTSBURGH, PA -Eleven southwestern Pennsylvania hospitals received an "A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a nationwide hospital safety analysis. But three 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.

Receiving "A" grades:

• UPMC McKeesport

• UPMC Mercy

• UPMC St. Margaret

• St. Clair

• UPMC East

• UPMC Passavant, McCandless

• Westmoreland

• Heritage Valley, Sewickley

• Washington

• UPMC Passavant, Cranberry

• Heritage Valley, Beaver

Receiving "B" grades:

• Jefferson Regional Medical Center

• UPMC Presbyterian

• West Penn

• Forbes

• Mon Valley

Receiving "C" grades:

• UPMC Shadyside

• Canonsburg

• Allegheny Valley