7 Hudson Valley Hospitals Get 'A' Rating In Just Released Safety Study

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows seven Hudson Valley hospitals earned "A" grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm.

Among those hospitals cited in The Leapfrog Group's Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, two in the Hudson Valley were designated "Straight A" hospitals for sustaining their top scores for five or more consecutive grading periods. Nationwide, 346 hospitals — 12 percent of all eligible hospitals — were named to this select group.

The biannual reports from the independent hospital safety watchdog group assigns "A," "B," "C," "D," or "F" grades to all U.S. general hospitals based on how well they prevent medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections. These mistakes harm one in four hospital patients and cause as many as 250,000 deaths every year.

Even more elite are 11 hospitals that have earned A grades or 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.

The elite "Straight A" hospitals in the Hudson Valley cited for consistently high safety performance are:

• Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco
• White Plains Hospital, White Plains

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."

"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."

Other "A" hospitals in the Hudson Valley are:

• Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital, Mount Vernon
• NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester, Bronxville
• Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck
• Phelps Hospital, Sleepy Hollow
• Putnam Hospital, Carmel

Hospitals receiving a "B" safety grade in the Hudson Valley are:

• Garnet Health Medical Center, Middletown
• NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital, Cortlandt Manor
• Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie

Hospitals receiving a "C" safety grade in the Hudson Valley are:

• Bon Secours Community Hospital, Port Jervis
• HealthAlliance Hospital, Kingston
• MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center, Poughkeepsie
• Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, New Rochelle
• Montefiore Nyack Hospital, Nyack
• Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall, Newburgh
• St. Anthony Community Hospital, Warwick
• St. John's Riverside Hospital - Andrus Pavilion, Yonkers
• St. Joseph's Medical Center of Yonkers, Yonkers
• Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla

The hospital receiving a "D" safety grade in the Hudson Valley is:

• Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern

The top five states with the highest share of Straight A hospitals since spring 2023 are Connecticut (29 percent), Utah (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 Arkansas, 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.