70 FL Hospitals Earn 'A' Grade In New Safety Ranking

FLORIDA — A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows 36.6 percent of hospitals in Florida earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm.

Among those hospitals cited in The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, 19 percent in Florida were designated “Straight A” hospitals for sustaining their top scores for five or more consecutive grading periods. Nationwide, 346 hospitals — 12 percent of all eligible hospitals — were named to this select group.

According to the safety grades, four Florida hospitals received a ‘F,’ two got a 'D,' 57 got a 'C' and 57 scored a ‘B.’

The biannual reports from the independent hospital safety watchdog group assigned “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” grades to all U.S. general hospitals based on how well they prevent medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections. These mistakes harm one in four hospital patients and cause as many as 250,000 deaths every year.

Florida ranks 14th among all states for the percentage of hospitals receiving “A” grades in the spring 2025 report card, down from 13th place in the fall.

Even more elite are 11 hospitals that have earned A grades or 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.

The elite “Straight A” hospitals in Florida cited for consistently high safety performance are:

• AdventHealth Orlando
• AdventHealth East Orlando
• Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
• AdventHealth Altamonte Springs
• AdventHealth DeLand
• Orlando Health South Lake Hospital
• AdventHealth Celebration
• AdventHealth Fish Memorial
• St. Joseph's Hospital -North
• Baptist Health Homestead Hospital
• Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville
• AdventHealth Winter Park
• HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital
• Larkin Community Hospital
• HCA Florida North Florida Hospital
• HCA Florida Westside Hospital
• Jupiter Medical Center
• HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital
• AdventHealth Wesley Chapel
• Healthpark Medical Center
• Oviedo Medical Center
• St. Joseph's Hospital - South
• Cape Coral Hospital
• UF Health Shands Hospital
• St. Anthony's Hospital
• Mease Dunedin Hospital
• AdventHealth Carrollwood
• Morton Plant Hospital
• Morton Plant North Bay Hospital
• Mease Countryside Hospital
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital
• AdventHealth Ocala
• Lee Memorial Hospital
• Baptist Medical Center Nassau
• St. Joseph's Hospital
• Baptist Medical Center Beaches

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.”

Other “A” hospitals in Florida are:

• AdventHealth Dade City
• AdventHealth North Pinellas
• HCA Florida Highlands Hospital
• Lakewood Ranch Medical Center
• HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital
• Bayfront Health St. Petersburg
• Baptist Health Hospital Doral
• Baptist Medical Center Clay
• AdventHealth Winter Garden
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital - Venice
• St. Vincent's Medical Center Clay County
• Baptist Health West Kendall Baptist Hospital
• St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside
• Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital
• Memorial Hospital Miramar
• Broward Health Coral Springs
• HCA Florida Raulerson Hospital
• Memorial Hospital Pembroke
• HCA Florida Kendall Hospital
• HCA Florida Trinity Hospital
• Coral Gables Hospital
• Baptist Health South Miami Hospital
• Bartow Regional Medical Center
• AdventHealth Lake Wales
• Broward Health North
• AdventHealth Kissimmee
• Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital
• Hialeah Hospital
• Winter Haven Hospital
• Larkin Community Hospital - Palm Springs Campus
• AdventHealth Apopka
• AdventHealth Zephyrhills
• Holmes Regional Medical Center
• AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach

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

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.