These Are IL's Safest Hospitals, New Ranking Says

ILLINOIS — A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows 35 hospitals in Illinois earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm.

The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 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.

According to the safety grades, one Illinois hospital received an 'F' grade. Additionally, 15 hospitals received a 'D' and 40 got a 'C'.

Illinois ranks 20th among all states for the percentage of hospitals receiving “A” grades in the spring 2025 report card.

“A” hospitals in Illinois are:

• Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital
• Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital
• Endeavor Health Glenbrook Hospital
• Endeavor Health Highland Park Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine, Lake Forest Hospital
• Rush University Medical Center
• Silver Cross Hospital
• UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook
• UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale
• UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange
• University of Chicago Medical Center
• Advocate Condell Medical Center
• Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
• Advocate Sherman Hospital
• Blessing Hospital
• Endeavor Health Edward Hospital
• Endeavor Health Northwest Community Hospital
• Loretto Hospital
• MacNeal Hospital
• McDonough District Hospital
• Mercy Medical Center
• Morris Hospital
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital
• OSF Healthcare Saint James - John W. Albrecht Medical Center
• OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center
• OSF St. Mary Medical Center
• Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center dba OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center
• Saint Francis Hospital
• St Bernard Hospital
• St. Mary's Hospital - Kankakee

You can see the full rankings here.

Across the nation, 11 hospitals have earned "A" grades on 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.

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.”

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.