Connecticut Hospital Safety Grades Released For Fall 2018

Just two Connecticut hospitals received an A grade in hospital safety, according to new Fall 2018 ratings released by the Leapfrog Group on Thursday. The nonprofit group found that of the more than 2,600 hospitals graded in the country, 32 percent earned an A grade.

The Leapfrog Group explains that its rating system is focused entirely on errors, accidents, injuries and infections. The hospital safety grades are released by the nonprofit group twice a year, in the spring and in the fall.

New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Massachusetts and Texas had the highest percentage of hospitals that received an A grade. Connecticut was among the states with the lowest percentage of hospitals that received an A grade. The other states with the lowest percentage of A grade hospitals are Nebraska, Washington D.C., Delaware and North Dakota, according to Leapfrog. Washington D.C., Delaware and North Dakota did not have a single hospital that received an A grade.

Here are the grades Connecticut hospitals were given by the Leapfrog Group:

A Grade

Bristol Hospital, Bristol

St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center, Hartford

B Grade

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Torrington

Danbury Hospital, Danbury

New Milford Hospital, New Milford

The William W. Backus Hospital, Norwich

C Grade

Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport

Day Kimball Hospital, Putnam

Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich

Griffin Hospital, Derby

Hartford Hospital, Hartford

Johnson Memorial Medical Center, Stafford Springs

Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, New London

Middlesex Hospital, Middletown

MidState Medical Center, Meriden

Milford Hospital, Milford

Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk

Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury

Stamford Health, Stamford

The Hospital of Central Connecticut, New Britain

University of Connecticut Health Center, John Dempsey Hospital, Farmington

Windham Community Memorial Hospital, Willmantic

Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven

Yale-New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael Campus, New Haven

D Grade

St. Vincent's Medical Center

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“Health care was an important issue in the 2018 midterm elections, yet both parties are still neglecting the third leading cause of death in America—errors and infections in hospitals,” Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said in a press release. “Every elected official, from city councilors, to senators, to the President, should hold hospitals accountable and support efforts to improve patient safety.”

Leapfrog assigns A,B,C,D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States. Leapfrog explains that the safety grade includes 28 measures that are taken together to “produce a single letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.” The group uses performance measures from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (You can read more about the letter grades here.)

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