Hospital Safety Grades Show NYC Facilities' Health Improving

NEW YORK – New York City's hospitals are showing some signs of slowly improving health.

According to new fall 2019 ratings released Thursday by the Leapfrog Group, two city institutions gained A grades, three got Bs, 25 Cs and 14 Ds.

Though hardly a stellar scorecard, it's better than the group's last ranking in spring 2019 that showed only one A, 15 Ds and an F.

The Leapfrog Group's rating system is focused entirely on errors, accidents, injuries and infections. The hospital safety grades are released by the nonprofit group twice a year, in the spring and in the fall.

Maine, Utah, Virginia, Oregon and North Carolina had the highest percentage of hospitals that received an A grade. Three states — Wyoming, Alaska and North Dakota — did not have a single hospital that received an A.

Here are the grades YOUR STATE hospitals were given by the Leapfrog Group:

These hospitals got a grade A:

Mount Sinai West
1000 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY

NYU Langone Hospitals
550 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016-6402

These hospitals got a grade B:

NYC Health Hospitals - Metropolitan
1901 First Avenue
New York, NY 10029-740

NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn
150 55th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220-2559

BronxCare Health System
1650 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10457

These hospitals got a grade C:

Coney Island Hospital
2601 Ocean Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11235-7795

Flushing Hospital Medical Center
4500 Parsons Boulevard
Flushing, NY 11355-2205

Interfaith Medical Center
1545 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11213

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
8900 Van Wyck Expressway
Jamaica, NY 11418-2832

Lenox Hill Hospital
100 E. 77th Street
New York, NY 10075-1850

Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital
102-01 66th Road
Forest Hills, NY 11375-2029

Montefiore Einstein Campus
1825 Eastchester Road
Bronx, NY 10461

Montefiore Moses Campus
111 E. 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467-2401

Montefiore Wakefield Campus
600 E. 233rd Street
Bronx, NY 10466

Mount Sinai Queens
25-10 30th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11102-2448

Mount Sinai St. Luke's
1111 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025-1716

New York-Presbyterian Queens
56-45 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355-5000

New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center
630 W. 168th St.
New York, NY 10032

New York-Presbyterian The Allen Hospital
5141 Broadway
New York, NY 10034

New York-Presbyterian, Lower Manhattan Hospital
170 William Street
New York, NY 10038-2649

New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
525 E. 68th Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10065-4870

NYC Health Hospitals - Queens
82-68 164th Street
Jamaica, NY 11432-1104

NYC Health & Hospitals - Harlem
506 Lenox Avenue
New York, NY 10037-1894

NYC Health and Hospitals - Lincoln
234 E 149th St
Bronx, NY 10451

NYC Health and Hospitals - Woodhull
760 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11206-5383

NYC Health and Hospitals Kings County
451 Clarkson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11203-2097

NYC Health and Hospitals North Central Bronx
3424 Kossuth Avenue, 15A-04
Bronx, NY 10467-2489

St. Barnabas Hospital
4422 Third Avenue
Bronx, NY 10457

SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital of Brooklyn
445 Lenox Road
Brooklyn, NY 11203

The Brooklyn Hospital Center
121 DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11201-5425

These hospitals got a grade D:

Brookdale Hospital Medical Center
1 Brookdale Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11212-3139

Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
585 Schenectady Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11203-1891

Maimonides Medical Center
4802 10th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11219-2916

Mount Sinai Beth Israel
281 1st Avenue
New York, NY 10003-3803

Mount Sinai Brooklyn
3201 Kings Highway
Brooklyn, NY 11234

New York - Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
506 Sixth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215-3609

New York Community Hospital
2525 Kings Highway
Brooklyn, NY 11229-1798

NYC Health and Hospitals - Bellevue
462 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016-9198

NYC Health and Hospitals Elmhurst
79-01 Broadway
Elmhurst, NY 11373-1329

NYC Health and Hospitals Jacobi
1400 Pelham Parkway South
Bronx, NY 10461-1197

Richmond University Medical Center
355 Bard Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10310-1664

St. John's Episcopal Hospital
327 Beach 19th Street
Far Rockaway, NY 11691-4423

Staten Island University Hospital
475 Seaview Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10305-3436

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
374 Stockholm Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237-4099

The release of the Fall 2019 safety grades coincides with the 20th anniversary of a published report that revealed nearly 100,000 lives are lost every year because of preventable medical errors.

“In stark contrast to 20 years ago, we’re now able to pinpoint where the problems are, and that allows us to grade hospitals,” Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said in a press release.

“It also allows us to better track progress. Encouragingly, we are seeing fewer deaths from the preventable errors we monitor in our grading process.”

Leapfrog assigns A,B,C,D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States. Leapfrog explains that the safety grade includes performance measures taken from federal government data and the group’s own hospital survey to “produce a single letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.”

The group relies on a panel of experts to select the measures used in the methodology and to develop a scoring system. (You can read more about the letter grades here.)