The Best Hospitals in Illinois for Patient Safety

Illinois ranks among the best in the nation when it comes to patient safety at hospitals, according to a new report card.

In its biannual Hospital Safety Score study, the Washington D.C.-based non-profit Leapfrog Group graded more than 2,500 hospitals in the U.S. on 28 safety measures. A total of 117 hospitals in Illinois were issued grades ranging from A to F; though no Illinois hospitals listed in the report received a failing grade.

The report analyzed patient safety at hospitals using national performance measures from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

More from the report about the scores:

Taken together, those performance measures produce a single score representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors. The Hospital Safety Score includes 28 measures, all currently in use by national measurement and reporting programs. The Hospital Safety Score methodology has been peer reviewed and published in the Journal of Patient Safety.

Illinois came in at the No. 6 spot with 51 hospitals, or 43.6 percent, receiving an A for patient safety.

Here are the 18 hospitals that have earned A’s since the first set of rankings were released in 2012.

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