These Are NY’s Safest Hospitals, New Ranking Says

NEW YORK — Thirty-three hospitals in New York earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm, according to a new hospital safety report released Thursday.

The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 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.

The Leapfrog Group, a watchdog founded 25 years ago, says it aims to improve American health care through transparency.

Here are the hospitals in New York that scored an A grade:

• Catholic Health’s St. Catherine of Siena Hospital
• Catholic Health’s St. Charles Hospital
• Catholic Health’s St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center
• Mount Sinai Queens
• New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital
• New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
• New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• New York-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital
• New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital
• New York-Presbyterian Westchester
• New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center
• Northwell’s Glen Cove Hospital
• Northwell’s Huntington Hospital
• Northwell’s Long Island Jewish Forest Hills
• Northwell’s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream
• Northwell’s Mather Hospital
• Northwell’s Northern Westchester Hospital
• Northwell’s Lenox Hill Hospital
• Northwell’s Peconic Bay Medical Center
• Northwell’s Phelps Hospital
• Northwell’s Plainview Hospital
• Northwell’s South Shore University Hospital
• Northern Dutchess Hospital of Nuvance Health
• Putnam Hospital of Nuvance Health
• NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens
• NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn
• NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island
• NYU Langone Hospitals
• Saratoga Hospital
• White Plains Hospital
• Catholic Health System’s Mount St. Mary's Hospital in Buffalo
• Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic
• WMC Health’s St. Anthony Community Hospital

Among the 33, 11 hospitals in New York City scored an A grade. Northwell Health had 15 hospitals score an A and 3 scored a Straight A, given to those earning an A grade for more than two years in a row.

New York placed 30th in the US, with 23.1 percent of its hospitals earning an “A".

You can read the full rankings here.