Illinois' Safest Hospitals: Latest Ratings Released For Fall

ILLINOIS — Several Illinois hospitals have made improvements in protecting patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries, and infections while others have fallen short, according to the Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades report released Wednesday.

The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit healthcare watchdog group, used an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.

In Illinois, 27 hospitals received an A, 24 hospitals received a B, 45 hospitals received a C and seven hospitals received a D grade. One hospital received an F.

Here are the ratings, according to Leapfrog:

A

• Loyola Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park
• UnityPoint Health, Proctor Hospital, Peoria
• Blessing Hospital, Quincy
• Rush Copley Medical Center, Aurora
• SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital, Centralia
• MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn
• Advent Health, La Grange
• OSF Health St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria
• University of Chicago Medical Center
• McDonough District Hospital, Macomb
• Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana
• Morris Hospital, Morris
• Northwestern Memorial Medical Center, McHenry
• Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital
• Ascension Resurrection Hospital, Chicago
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
• Advent Health Hinsdale
• FHN Memorial Hospital, Freeport
• Ascension Mercy, Aurora
• Memorial Hospital, Belleville
• HHHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, O’Fallon
• Elmhurst Memorial Hospital
• Northwestern Medical Delnor Hospital, Geneva
• Silver Cross Hospital, New Lenox
• Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield
• Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights
• Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb

B

• Graham Hospital, Canton
• Ascension St. Joseph Hospital, Joliet
• Northshore University Health System, Evanston Hospital
• Northshore University Health System, Glenview
• HHHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, Effingham
• Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital
• Loretto Hospital, Chicago
• OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center, Danville
• St. Bernard Hospital, Chicago
• NorthShore University Medical Center, Highland Park
• OSF St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Ottawa
• Swedish Hospital, Chicago
• Ascension St. Mary Hospital, Kankakee
• John Albrecht Medical Center, Pontiac
• OSF St. Francis, Bloomington
• Ascension St. Mary Hospital, Chicago
• Riverside Medical Center, Kankakee
• Ingalls Memorial Hospital, Harvey
• Humboldt Park Health, Chicago
• Ascension St. Joseph, Elgin
• Edward Hospital, Naperville
• OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center, Rockford
• Ascension Alexian Brothers, Elk Grove Village
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago

C

• Alton Memorial Hospital, Alton
• SIH Herrin Hospital, Herrin
• Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, Dixon
• Mt. Sinai Hospital, Chicago
• Advocate Sherman Hospital, Elgin
• CGH Medical Center, Sterling
• Good Samaritan Hospital, Sterling
• Advocate Trinity Hospital, Chicago
• West Suburban Medical Center, Oak Park
• OSF St. Anthony’s Health Center, Alton
• HHHS St. John’s Hospital, Springfield
• Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville
• OSF St. Mary Medical Center, Galesburg
• Ascension St. Francis Hospital, Evanston
• St. Anthony Hospital, Chicago
• OSF Heart Of Mary Medical Center, Urbana
• Thorek Memorial Hospital, Chicago
• Unity Point Hospital, Pekin
• John H. Stroger, Hospital, Chicago
• Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Normal
• Northwestern Medicine, Lake Forest
• Holy Cross Hospital, Chicago
• Decatur Memorial Hospital
• St. Margaret’s Health, Spring Valley
• HHHS St. Joseph’s Hospital, Breese
• Carle Richland Medical Center, Olney
• Memorial Medical Center, Springfield
• SIH Memorial Hospital, Carbondale
• HHHS St. Mary’s Hospital, Decatur
• Franciscan Health, Olympia Fields
• OSF Little Company of Mary, Evergreen Park
• Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago
• Heartland Regional Medical Center, Marion
• Advocate Conley Hospital, Libertyville
• Unity Point Health, Peoria
• Advocate Lutheran Hospital, Park Ridge
• Ascension Saint Joseph, Chicago
• UW Health Swedish American Hospital, Rockford,
• St. Margaret's Health, Peru
• Advocate South Suburban Hospital, Hazel Crest
• Community First Medical Center, Chicago
• Genesis Medical Center, Silvis
• Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood
• Trinity Rock Island
• Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove

D

• Roseland Community Hospital, Chicago
• Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago
• Vista Medical Center East, Waukegan
• Gateway Regional Medical Center, Granite City
• Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, Mattoon
• Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn
• Javon Bea Hospital, Rockford

F

• South Shore Hospital, Chicago

With the release of its fall report, The Leapfrog Group has analyzed hospital safety data for a decade. Most hospitals have improved over time under more public scrutiny, Leapfrog Group President and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release.

“For a long time, the healthcare community tried to improve safety, but progress stalled,” Binder said. “The big difference over this decade is that for the first time, we publicly reported each hospital’s record on patient safety, and that galvanized the kind of change we all hoped for.

“It’s not enough change, but we are on the right track,” she said.

Notably, hospitals reduced what are called “never events” — accidents and errors that never should have happened, the release said. Incidents of falls and trauma and incidents in which objects were unintentionally left in a patient’s body during surgery were down 25 percent, the watchdog group said.

Also, according to the report, progress in the number of patients treated for healthcare-associated infections declined to pre-pandemic levels.

Nearly two dozen hospitals have received straight-A reports every year since the Leapfrog Group began its safety grades in 2012. They are:

• Arizona: Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix.
• California: French Hospital Medical Center, San Luis Obispo; Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim; Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, San Luis Obispo.
• Colorado: Rose Medical Center, Denver.
• Florida: AdventHealth Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach.
• Illinois: Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst; Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield; University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago.
• Massachusetts: Beverly Hospital, Beverly; Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River.
• Michigan: University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor.
• Mississippi: Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle, Columbus.
• North Carolina: Rex Hospital, Inc., Raleigh.
• Ohio: OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital, Dublin; OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware.
• Texas: St. David's Medical Center, Austin.
• Virginia: Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg; Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Hampton; Sentara Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia; Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, Williamsburg.
• Washington: Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle.

Search for your hospital’s fall 2022 safety grade and read more about the methodology.