These Are The Safest PA Hospitals, New Report Says

PENNSYLVANIA — Seventeen hospitals in Pennsylvania were among hundreds across the country recently recognized for safety and patient experience by Healthgrades, a comprehensive database of ratings and comparisons for physicians, hospitals and health care providers.

Healthgrades’ 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Awards recognize 442 hospitals in 40 states that represent the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide for hospital safety, including the prevention of serious infections.

The hospitals in Pennsylvania receiving Patient Safety Excellence Awards include the following:

• UPMC Horizon-Greenville
• Oss Orthopaedic Hospital
• Surgical Institute of Reading
• Chester County Hospital (also named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals)
• Physician's Care Surgical Hospital
• Riddle Memorial Hospital (also named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals)
• St. Luke's Hospital-Bethlehem Campus (also named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals)
• Jefferson Lansdale Hospital
• Saint Luke's Hospital Anderson
• Pennsylvania Hospital (also named one of America's 100 Best Hospitals)
• Temple University Hospital (also named one of America's 250 Best Hospitals)
• Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital (also named one of America's 250 Best Hospitals)
• St. Luke's Hospital-Easton Campus
• Doylestown Hospital
• St Luke's Hospital-Monroe Campus
• Rothman Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital
• Lower Bucks Hospital

If all hospitals performed at a similar level in the prevention of serious injuries and illnesses, about 100,900 patient safety events could have been avoided from 2021 to 2023, Healthgrades said in a news release.

To develop the list, Healthgrades’ data scientists and clinical experts analyze Medicare claims for hospitalizations across 13 patient safety indicators, each representing a serious, potentially preventable complication.

The analysis found that four of these complications accounted for nearly 76 percent of all patient safety events between 2021 and 2023, and that patients treated at a 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient hospital have a lower risk of experiencing each of these adverse events:

• In-hospital fall resulting in fracture (54 percent less likely);
• Collapsed lung due to a procedure or surgery in or around the chest (54.8 percent less likely);
• Pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital (69.4 percent less likely);
• Catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital (72 percent less likely).