Beverly Hospital Brings Home Straight A Report Card

BEVERLY, MA – For the past three years, Beverly Hospital has gotten straight A's in safety ratings, according to a ranking released Monday.

Twice a year, The Leapfrog Group releases its Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a program which assigns A, B, C, D and F letter grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals.

The safety grade is based on factors, such as how often patients at a given hospital acquire infections or other conditions during their stay, or how well-staffed a hospital's intensive care unit may be.

According to the Leapfrog ranking, Massachusetts' safest hospitals (those receiving "straight A's" over the past three years) are: Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis; Harrington Memorial Hospital, Southbridge; Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River; Beverly Hospital, Beverly; Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield; Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, Brockton; Holy Family Hospital, Methuen; Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton; Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Boston; and Addison Gilbert Hospital, Gloucester.

Here's a look at how Massachusetts as a whole stacked up against the rest of the country:

1. Hawaii
2. Idaho
3. Maine
4. Wisconsin
5. North Carolina
6. Utah
7. Massachusetts
8. Vermont
9. Oregon
10. Virginia

>>>See the full rankings and grades here.

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