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Patient Safety Rankings: Best and Worst Illinois Hospitals

The Leapfrog Group announced its ratings Monday, which graded hospitals on an A through F scale for patient safety.

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Fifty Illinois hospitals received a top patient-safety ranking — and five rated among the worst — in a report for Spring 2016 from The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit founded by employers and health-care providers to provide transparency into hospital performance.

Hospitals in the nationwide report released Monday received a letter grade from A through F based on several factors. Of the 2,571 hospitals studied in the United States, 798 earned an A, 639 earned a B, 957 earned a C, 162 earned a D and 15 earned an F.

In Illinois, 115 hospitals were ranked. No Illinois hospitals received an F grade.

Five Illinois hospitals received a D grade. They are:

Follow the links to review each hospital's individual report.

Leapfrog looked at medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections to determine the grades, judging whether patients risked further injury or infection if they visited a certain hospital. Hospitals with B rating by Leapfrog had a 9 percent higher risk of avoidable death than A hospitals. That number jumps to 35 percent in C hospitals and 50 percent higher in D and F hospitals.

The analysis estimates that 33,459 lives could be saved if every hospital improved its safety record to A standards. Still, the study estimates 43,903 avoidable deaths occur in A-list hospitals each year. Leapfrog estimates 206,021 avoidable deaths occur each year in U.S. hospitals.

Of the 50 A-rated hospitals, 26 are in Chicago and the suburbs. In alphabetical order, they are:

» explore the full list of Illinois Hospital Patient Safety Rankings

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