Norristown Area Hospitals Graded For Patient Safety: How They Stack Up

NORRISTOWN, PA — The latest hospital safety ratings show some modest improvement for hospitals in the Norristown area, according to the independent healthcare research group Leapfrog.

Several hospitals around Norristown and the Montgomery County area are included on the list., led by Einstein Medical Center Montgomery in East Norriton. The hospital received Leapfrog's highest grade of A for the third consecutive Leapfrog ranking.

Suburban Community Hospital in East Norriton, meanwhile, maintained the B grade it's had the past few years.

A pair of Tower Health-owned hospitals, Pottstown Hospital and Phoenixville Hospital, both received Cs in the latest rankings. They were D's in the spring, and in spring 2021.

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The latest ratings reflect care during the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw years of progress in patient safety reversed, according to research from The Leapfrog Group.

The pandemic has had a negative effect on “health care delivery at every level and setting, from staffing shortages to increased infections to the very care patients receive,” according to the Adult Patient Experience at Acute Care Hospitals survey, also released by The Leapfrog Group.

Leapfrog used an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.

Overall, Pennsylvania had 39 hospitals receive an A, 30 hospitals receive a B, and 14 hospitals receive a C. The Keystone State had no hospitals with the very low D and F grades. During Leapfrog's last ratings in the spring, the state had 8 hospitals in the D category.

Search for your hospital’s fall 2022 safety grade and read more about the methodology.