These Are The Safest GA Hospitals, New Report Says

GEORGIA — Ten hospitals in Georgia were among hundreds across the country recently recognized for safety and patient experience by Healthgrades, a comprehensive database of ratings and comparisons for physicians, hospitals and health care providers.

Healthgrades’ 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Awards recognize 442 hospitals in 40 states that represent the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide for hospital safety, including the prevention of serious infections.

The hospitals in Georgia receiving Patient Safety Excellence Awards include:

• Wellstar Paulding Medical Center, Hiram
• Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens
• Piedmont, Newnan
• AdventHealth Redmond, Rome
• Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center, Lagrange
• Piedmont Macon North Hospital, Macon
• Piedmont Macon Medical Center, Macon
• Fairview Park Hospital, Dublin
• Doctors Hospital, Augusta
• Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah

AdventHealth Redmond led the pack with 11 awards, including the America's 250 Best Hospitals Award and the Patient Safety Excellence Award.

Wellstar Paulding, Piedmont Macon, Doctors Hospital and Memorial Health University also secured multiple awards. All others garnered one.

If all hospitals performed at a similar level in the prevention of serious injuries and illnesses, about 100,900 patient safety events could have been avoided from 2021 to 2023, Healthgrades said in a news release.

To develop the list, Healthgrades’ data scientists and clinical experts analyze Medicare claims for hospitalizations across 13 patient safety indicators, each representing a serious, potentially preventable complication.

The analysis found that four of these complications accounted for nearly 76 percent of all patient safety events between 2021 and 2023, and that patients treated at a 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient hospital have a lower risk of experiencing each of these adverse events:

• In-hospital fall resulting in fracture (54 percent less likely);
• Collapsed lung due to a procedure or surgery in or around the chest (54.8 percent less likely);
• Pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital (69.4 percent less likely);
• Catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital (72 percent less likely).