These Are The Safest MA Hospitals, New Report Says

MASSACHUSETTS - 5 hospitals in Massachusetts were among hundreds across the country recently recognized for safety and patient experience by Healthgrades, a comprehensive database of ratings and comparisons for physicians, hospitals and health care providers.

Healthgrades’ 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Awards recognize 442 hospitals in 40 states that represent the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide for hospital safety, including the prevention of serious infections.

The hospitals in the Commonwealth receiving Patient Safety Excellence Awards include:

• Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston
• Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton
• Falmouth Hospital in Falmouth
• Baystate Wing Hospital in Palmer
• Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield

All of the hospitals are repeat winners, while Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital was also one of Healthgrade’s 250 best hospitals in 2024. It received numerous other more specific awards, including for critical care, gastrointestinal surgery and pulmonary care.

If all hospitals performed at a similar level in the prevention of serious injuries and illnesses, about 100,900 patient safety events could have been avoided from 2021 to 2023, Healthgrades said in a news release.

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To develop the list, Healthgrades’ data scientists and clinical experts analyze Medicare claims for hospitalizations across 13 patient safety indicators, each representing a serious, potentially preventable complication.

The analysis found that four of these complications accounted for nearly 76 percent of all patient safety events between 2021 and 2023, and that patients treated at a 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient hospital have a lower risk of experiencing each of these adverse events:

• In-hospital fall resulting in fracture (54 percent less likely);
• Collapsed lung due to a procedure or surgery in or around the chest (54.8 percent less likely);
• Pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital (69.4 percent less likely);
• Catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital (72 percent less likely).