UPMC Passavant Cranberry Fall 2021 Safety Grade

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PA — Sixteen southwestern Pennsylvania hospitals received an "A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a nationwide hospital safety analysis. But six received a "C" grade, meaning patients are more likely to die a preventable death at those facilities than those graded higher.

The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and safety of American health care, assesses nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide twice a year. Leapfrog uses more than 30 national performance measures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and information from other supplemental data sources.

Taken together, those performance measures produce a single letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.

What follows are the grades given to Pittsburgh-area hospitals. For more information on individual hospitals, click on the link.

A Grades

• Allegheny General Hospital, North Side

• West Penn Hospital, Bloomfield

• UPMC St. Margaret, near Aspinwall

• St. Clair Hospital, Upper St. Clair

• UPMC Passavant, McCandless

• UPMC McKeesport, McKeesport

• Heritage Valley, Sewickley

• UPMC East, Monroeville

• Forbes Hospital Monroeville

• UPMC Passavant, Cranberry

• Washington Hospital, Washington

• Westmoreland Hospital Greensburg

• Heritage Valley Beaver, Beaver

• Butler Memorial Hospital, Butler

• Excela Health, Mt. Pleasant

• Washington Health System Greene, Waynesburg

B Grades

• UPMC Mercy, Uptown

• UPMC Presbyterian, Oakland

• UPMC Shadyside, Shadyside

• Latrobe Hospital, Latrobe

• Uniontown Hospital, Hospital

C Grades

• Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Jefferson Hills

• Canonsburg General, Canonsburg

• Allegheny Valley Hospital, Harrison

• Monongahela Valley Hospital, Monongahela

• Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning

• Highlands Hospital, Canonsburg

D Grades

• Heritage Valley, Kennedy