How Do Massachusetts Hospitals Rank In New Safety Grades?

MASSACHUSETTS — A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows 15 hospitals in Massachusetts 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, six hospitals received a 'D' and 10 got a 'C'.

Massachusetts ranks 28th among all states for the percentage of hospitals receiving "A" grades (27.3 percent) in the spring 2025 report card.

"A" hospitals in Massachusetts are:

• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Milford Regional Medical Center
• Newton-Wellesley Hospital
• St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River
• Winchester Hospital
• Baystate Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield
• Baystate Wing Hospital, Palmer
• Berkshire Medical Center
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
• Holy Family Hospital, Methuen
• Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge
• Salem Hospital
• Sturdy Memorial Hospital, Attleboro

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.”

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"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.