57 PA Hospitals Get 'A' Grade For Safety, New Ranking Says: See Full List

A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows 57 hospitals in Pennsylvania earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm. That's up from 54 that received the top rating statewide in the spring.

The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades are a biannual ranking that assigns an “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.

The report also named “Straight A” hospitals — those earning an A grade for more than two years in a row.

Medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections are largely preventable problems that harm one in four hospital inpatients and cause as many as 250,000 deaths each year, according to The Leapfrog Group. The Safety Grade reports have been a cornerstone of that effort, the group says.

Hospitals in Pennsylvania that earned A grades were:

• AHN Grove City (straight A hospital)
• AHN Wexford Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Allegheny Valley Hospital
• Canonsburg General Hospital
• Conemaugh Nason Medical Center (straight A hospital)
• Doylestown Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Geisinger Lewistown Hospital
• Geisinger Medical Center Muncy
• Geisinger St. Luke's Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Independence Health Clarion Hospital
• Jefferson Abington Hospital
• Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Jefferson Frankford
• Jefferson Lansdale Hospital
• Jefferson Regional Medical Center
• Lancaster General Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono (straight A hospital)
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Schuylkill
• Lower Bucks Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Main Line Health-Bryn Mawr Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Main Line Health-Lankenau Medical Center (straight A hospital)
• Main Line Health-Riddle Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Mount Nittany Medical Center (straight A hospital)
• Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center
• Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center
• Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
• Roxborough Memorial Hospital (straight A hospital)
• St. Clair Health (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's Carbon Campus (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's Easton Campus (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's Hospital - Allentown Campus (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's Hospital - Anderson Campus (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's Hospital - Miners Campus (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's Monroe Campus (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's Sacred Heart Campus (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus (straight A hospital)
• St. Luke's Upper Bucks Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital - Methodist Hospital Campus
• UPMC Bedford
• UPMC Carlisle
• UPMC East
• UPMC Horizon - Greenville Campus
• UPMC Lititz
• UPMC Mercy
• UPMC Northwest
• UPMC Passavant (straight A hospital)
• UPMC Passavant - Cranberry (straight A hospital)
• UPMC St. Margaret (straight A hospital)
• UPMC Washington
• WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Wellspan Good Samaritan Hospital (straight A hospital)
• Wellspan Waynesboro Hospital
• WellSpan York Hospital

Additionally, 31 hospitals in Pennsylvania earned B grades, 34 received C grades, and 7 received D grades. That was good enough to place the Keystone State 8th in the nation for percentage of A hospitals, an improvement over 10th place from the spring rankings.

The top five states were Utah, Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, and North Carolina.

For the first time in the history of its report cards, Leapfrog looked at the performance of hospitals that are part of larger networks managed under a single parent organization.

“We want to understand if system leadership accelerates patient safety or not,” Leah Binder, Leapfrog’s president and CEO, said in a news release.

The analysis found that 90 percent of hospitals with a fall 2025 Safety Grade are part of a health system. Among A hospitals, the chance of being system-affiliated is slightly higher, at 94 percent. The same held true for Straight A hospitals, with 95 percent of the 358 Straight A hospitals part of health systems.

All 11 hospitals that have earned an A for every grading round since 2012 are affiliated with health systems.

The 10 health systems with the highest total number of A hospitals and Straight A hospitals in the fall 2025 report are:

• Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare (51 A and 18 Straight A hospitals)
• Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health (49 A and 24 Straight A hospitals)
• Altamonte Springs, Florida-based AdventHealth (29 A and 21 Straight A hospitals)
• Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente (27 A and 12 Straight A hospitals)
• Charlotte, North Carolina-based AdvocateHealth (24 A hospitals and 1 Straight A hospital)
• Ontario, California-based Prime Healthcare Services (24 A and 11 Straight A hospitals)
• Falls Church, Virginia-based Defense Health Agency (18 A hospitals, and no Straight A hospitals due to the fact that military hospitals haven’t been eligible for a Safety grade for five rounds or more; they will become eligible in 2026)
• Brentwood, Tennessee-based Lifepoint Health (16 A and 2 Straight A hospitals)
• New York City-based Northwell Health (15 A and 3 Straight A hospitals)
• Sacramento-based Sutter Health (15 A and 3 Straight A hospitals)

Iowa, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming are the only states with no A hospitals.