54 PA Hospitals Get 'A' Rating On New Safety Grades: See Full List

PENNSYLVANIA — Fifty-four hospitals in Pennsylvania were given top marks in The Leapfrog Group’s fall 2024 hospital safety grades released Friday.

The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit health care watchdog group that grades hospitals twice a year, assigns letter grades ranging from “A” to “F,” for 3,000 general hospitals on how well they prevent medical errors, accidents and infections.

Overall, hospitals have made great strides since the pandemic years, when the risk of contracting deadly infections was elevated nationwide, but more work needs to be done, the Leapfrog Group said in a news release.

Pennsylvania ranked ninth among states for the number of hospitals earning the top letter grade. Many of these medical centers also received an "A" in the spring Leapfrog grades, as well; two improved from a "C" score in the spring. Here are the ratings:

St. Luke's Hospital -Allentown Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

St. Luke's Sacred Heart Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating:
• Spring 2024 rating:

Lower Bucks Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating:
• Spring 2024 rating:

Main Line Health - Bryn Mawr Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

UPMC Carlisle

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

St. Luke's Hospital - Miners Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: B

UPMC Passavant - Cranberry

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Geisinger Medical Center

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Doylestown Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Einstein Medical Center Montgomery

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Suburban Community Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

St. Luke's Easton Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

St. Luke's Hospital - Anderson Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hecktown Oaks

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

UPMC Bedford

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

UPMC Horizon - Shenango Valley Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: B

AHN Grove City

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

UPMC

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

UPMC Harrisburg

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Lancaster General Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Wellspan Good Samaritan Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

St. Luke's Carbon Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Geisinger Lewistown Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical Center

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

UPMC West Shore

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Main Line Health - Riddle Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

UPMC East

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: B

Forbes Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Independence Health System Frick Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: C

Allegheny Valley Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Geisinger St. Luke's Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Main Line Health - Paoli Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Temple University Hospital - Main Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Temple University Hospital Jeanes Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Roxborough Memorial Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Allegheny General Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: B

UPMC St. Margaret

• Fall 2024 rating: AA
• Spring 2024 rating:

UPMC Passavant

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

St. Clair Health

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

St. Luke's Upper Bucks Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: B

Conemaugh Nason Medical Center

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Grand View Health

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: B

UPMC Somerset

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Mount Nittany Medical Center

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: C

St. Luke's Monroe Campus

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Wellspan Waynesboro Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

AHN Wexford Hospital

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Main Line Health - Lankenau Medical Center

• Fall 2024 rating: A
• Spring 2024 rating: A

Overall, Pennsylvania had:

• 31 hospitals that earned “B” grades;
• 37 hospitals that earned “C” grades;
• 7 hospitals that earned “D” grades; and
• 0 hospitals that earned “F” grades.

For the third grading cycle, Utah tops the list with the highest percentage of “A” hospitals, followed, respectively, by Virginia, Connecticut, North Carolina, New Jersey, California, Rhode Island, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Colorado and South Carolina. California ranked in the top 10 for the first time since the fall of 2014.

The fall 2024 ratings show improvement in patient safety across several performance measures, including notable improvements on health care-associated infections, hand hygiene and medication safety. Preventable deaths and harm in hospitals has long been a major policy focus for The Leapfrog Group.

While noting the gains hospitals have made in patient safety have saved “countless lives,” Leapfrog Group president and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release that medical centers nationwide need to accelerate their progress “because no one should have to die from a preventable error in a hospital.”

Binder said significant variation in performance continues across U.S. hospitals. For example, four states — Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont — had no “A” hospitals.

“That’s why it’s so important for people to consult grades when making decisions about seeking care,” Binder said. “All hospitals are not the same.”

Nationally, health care-acquired infections reached their highest peak since 2016 in the fall 2022 safety grades, but they have since declined dramatically, according to the report.

Also, central line-associated bloodstream infections were down 38 percent, catheter-associated urinary tract infections were down 36 and MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections decreased by 34 percent.

For more information on the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org.

Patch's national desk contributed to this report.