73 FL Hospitals Receive 'A' Grade For Safety, 7 Get 'D': See Full List

A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows 73 hospitals in Florida earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm.

The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 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. The Leapfrog Group, a watchdog founded 25 years ago, says it aims to improve American health care through transparency.

The report also named “Straight A” hospitals — those earning an A grade for more than two years in a row.

Medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections are largely preventable problems that harm one in four hospital inpatients and cause as many as 250,000 deaths each year, according to The Leapfrog Group. The Safety Grade reports have been a cornerstone of that effort, the group says.

Additionally, 57 hospitals in Florida earned B grades, 40 received C grades and seven received D grades. The report also showed one Florida hospital received a failing F grade.

Hospitals in Florida that earned A grades were:

• AdventHealth, Apopka
• AdventHealth Carrollwood, Tampa
• AdventHealth, Celebration,
• AdventHealth, Dade City
• AdventHealth, DeLand
• AdventHealth, East Orlando
• AdventHealth Fish Memorial, Orange City
• AdventHealth, Kissimmee
• AdventHealth, Lake Wales
• AdventHealth, New Smyrna Beach
• AdventHealth North Pinellas, Tarpon Springs
• AdventHealth, Ocala
• AdventHealth, Orlando
• AdventHealth, Wesley Chapel
• AdventHealth, Winter Garden
• AdventHealth, Winter Park
• AdventHealth, Zephyrhills
• Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside, Jacksonville
• Baptist Health Doctors Hospital, Coral Gables
• Baptist Health Hospital, Doral
• Baptist Health South Miami Hospital, South Miami
• Baptist Health West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Miami
• Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Jacksonville Beach
• Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Fernandina Beach
• Baptist Medical Center South, Jacksonville
• Bartow Regional Medical Center, Bartow
• Baycare Hospital, Wesley Chapel
• Broward Health, Coral Springs
• Broward Health North, Deerfield Beach
• Cape Coral Hospital, Cape Coral
• Cleveland Clinic Hospital, Weston
• Coral Gables Hospital, Coral Gables
• HCA Florida Englewood Hospital, Englewood
• HCA Florida Highlands Hospital, Sebring
• HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, Miami
• HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, Lake City
• HCA Florida North Florida Hospital, Gainesville
• HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital, Brooksville
• HCA Florida Raulerson Hospital, Okeechobee
• HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital, Tampa
• HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital, Port St. Lucie
• HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, Trinity
• HCA Florida Twin Cities Hospital, Niceville
• Healthpark Medical Center, Fort Myers
• Jupiter Medical Center, Jupiter
• Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, Lakewood Ranch
• Larkin Community Hospital - Palm Springs Campus, Hialeah
• Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers
• Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville
• Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor
• Mease Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin
• Memorial Hospital, Miramar
• Memorial Hospital, Pembroke Pines
• Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater
• Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, New Port Richey
• Naval Hospital, Jacksonville
• Orlando Health South Lake Hospital, Clermont
• Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, St. Petersburg
• Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital, Winter Garden
• Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
• Oviedo Medical Center, Oviedo
• Santa Rosa Medical Center, Milton
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Venice
• St. Anthony's Hospital, St. Petersburg
• St. Joseph's Hospital, Tampa
• St. Joseph's Hospital - North, Lutz
• St. Joseph's Hospital - South, Riverview
• St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside, Jacksonville
• UCF Lake Nona Medical Center, Orlando
• UF Health-Spanish Plaines, The Villages
• Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven

The Leapfrog Group for the first time in the history of its report cards looked at the performance of hospitals that are part of larger networks of health care facilities that are owned or managed under a single parent organization.

“We want to understand if system leadership accelerates patient safety or not,” Leah Binder, Leapfrog’s president and CEO, said in a news release.

The analysis found that 90 percent of hospitals with a fall 2025 Safety Grade are part of a health system. Among A hospitals, the chance of being system-affiliated is slightly higher, at 94 percent. The same held true for Straight A hospitals, with 95 percent of the 358 Straight A hospitals part of health systems.

All 11 hospitals that have earned an A for every grading round since 2012 are affiliated with health systems.

The 10 health systems with the highest total number of A hospitals and Straight A hospitals in the fall 2025 report are:

1. Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare (51 A and 18 Straight A hospitals)
2. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health (49 A and 24 Straight A hospitals)
3. Altamonte Springs, Florida-based AdventHealth (29 A and 21 Straight A hospitals)
4. Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente (27 A and 12 Straight A hospitals)
5. Charlotte, North Carolina-based AdvocateHealth (24 A hospitals and 1 Straight A hospital)
6. Ontario, California-based Prime Healthcare Services (24 A and 11 Straight A hospitals)
7. Falls Church, Virginia-based Defense Health Agency (18 A hospitals, and no Straight A hospitals due to the fact that military hospitals haven’t been eligible for a Safety grade for five rounds or more; they will become eligible in 2026)
8. Brentwood, Tennessee-based Lifepoint Health (16 A and 2 Straight A hospitals)
9. New York City-based Northwell Health (15 A and 3 Straight A hospitals)
10. Sacramento-based Sutter Health (15 A and 3 Straight A hospitals)

Also according to the report, the top five states for the largest percentages of A hospitals are Utah, Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut and North Carolina, respectively.

Four states — Iowa, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming — have no A hospitals.