CA Hospital Scores ‘F’ In New Safety Ranking, While 122 Earn Top Grades

CALIFORNIA — A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows 122 hospitals in California earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm.

The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades are a biannual ranking that assigns a “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” to all general hospitals in the United States based on their ability to protect patients from medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections.

According to the safety grades, one California hospital received an 'F' grade. Additionally, 21 statewide hospitals received a 'D,' 67 got a 'C' and 74 received 'B' grades.

California ranks 9th among all states for the percentage of hospitals receiving “A” grades in the spring 2025 report card.

“A” hospitals in California include:

• Adventist Health Glendale
• Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
• Eisenhower Medical Center
• El Camino Hospital
• El Camino Hospital Los Gatos
• French Hospital Medical Center
• Hoag Hospital Irvine
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Antioch
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Modesto
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Oakland
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Roseville
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Francisco
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Leandro
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Rafael
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Santa Clara
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Santa Rosa
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South San Francisco
• Kaiser Permanente - Fontana Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente - Ontario Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente - San Diego Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Orange County - Anaheim Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Orange County - Irvine Medical Center
• La Palma Intercommunity Hospital
• Loma Linda University Medical Center
• Loma Linda University Medical Center East Campus
• Mercy General Hospital
• Mercy Medical Center
• Mercy San Juan Medical Center
• Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
• Montclair Hospital Medical Center
• Northridge Hospital Medical Center-Roscoe Boulevard Campus
• Paradise Valley Hospital
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
• Scripps Green Hospital
• Scripps Memorial Hospital of Encinitas
• Sequoia Hospital
• Sharp Grossmont Hospital
• St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
• St. John’s Hospital Camarillo
• UC San Diego Health Hillcrest - Hillcrest Medical Center
• UC San Diego Health La Jolla - Jacobs Medical Center and Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center
• UCSF Health - Mission Bay
• UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights
• Woodland Memorial Hospital
• Adventist Health Hanford
• Adventist Health Selma
• Adventist Health Sonora
• Adventist Health Tulare
• Adventist Health Ukiah Valley
• Alhambra Hospital Medical Center
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
• Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
• California Pacific Medical Center - Davies Campus
• California Pacific Medical Center - Mission Bernal Campus
• California Pacific Medical Center - Van Ness Campus
• Chino Valley Medical Center
• COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF SAN BERNARDINO
• Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
• Corona Regional Medical Center
• Desert Valley Hospital
• Dominican Hospital
• Eden Medical Center
• Enloe Health
• Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital
• Greater El Monte Community Hospital
• Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Fresno
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Manteca
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Redwood City
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South Sacramento
• Kaiser Permanente - Baldwin Park Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente - Downey Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente - Los Angeles Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente - Panorama City Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente - Riverside Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente - Zion Medical Center
• Keck Hospital of USC
• LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER-MURRIETA
• Los Angeles General Medical Center
• Marian Regional Medical Center
• Marshall Medical Center
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital
• Memorial Hospital Los Banos
• MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center
• Mercy Hospital - Southwest
• Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
• Natividad Medical Center
• Naval Medical Center San Diego
• Novato Community Hospital
• Palmdale Regional Medical Center
• Palomar Medical Center Escondido
• Palomar Medical Center Poway
• Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center
• Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
• Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance
• Providence Mission Hospital Mission Viejo
• Providence Queen of the Valley Medical Center
• Providence St. Jude Medical Center
• San Dimas Community Hospital
• Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
• Scripps Mercy Hospital of Chula Vista
• Scripps Mercy Hospital of San Diego
• Shasta Regional Medical Center
• Sherman Oaks Hospital
• Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
• St. Francis Medical Center
• St. Joseph's Medical Center of Stockton
• St. Mary Medical Center of Long Beach
• Stanford Health Care
• Sutter Amador Hospital
• Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital
• Sutter Davis Hospital
• Sutter Medical Center
• Sutter Roseville Medical Center
• Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital
• Sutter Solano Medical Center
• Sutter Tracy Community Hospital
• UCI Health
• UCSF Health, St. Mary’s Hospital
• Whittier Hospital Medical Center

Editor's note: This list was initially published without Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Leandro, which scored an "A" grade. Patch regrets the error.

You can see the full rankings, including the hospitals that scored lower than an 'A,' here.

The only hospital to receive an "F" grade in California is Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley. Hospital officials have not responded to a request for comment from Patch.

Across the nation, 11 hospitals have earned "A" grades on all 27 evaluation rounds over the 13 years of the report card.

They include: Mayo Clinic-Phoenix in Arizona; French Hospital Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center in California; Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital, Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital and University of Chicago Medical Center in Illinois; Saint Anne’s Hospital (Massachusetts); Inova Loudoun Hospital, Sentara CarePlex Hospital and Sentara Leigh Hospital in Virginia; and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Washington.

Leah Binder, the president and chief executive of The Leapfrog Group, said “A” grades should be a source of pride for hospitals, but she warned them not to “rest on that laurel.”

“Patient safety is a relentless, never-ending quest to put patients first,” she said in a news release. “That’s why Leapfrog is highlighting the hospitals across the U.S. that have earned Straight A’s for over two years. Sustaining an A over multiple years reflects a deep-rooted commitment to patient safety.”

The top five states with the highest share of Straight A hospitals since spring 2023 are Utah (29 percent), Connecticut (29 percent), New Jersey (27 percent), Rhode Island (22 percent) and Virginia (20 percent).

States with no Straight A hospitals for consistent performance over the past five grading cycles are Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming and Washington, D.C.

The states with the highest percentage of A Grades for spring 2025 are Utah, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, South Carolina and Virginia.

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