Pittsburgh Hospital Safety Grades: Fall 2024

PITTSBURGH, PA — Eleven hospitals in the Pittsburgh region received an"A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a new nationwide hospital safety analysis. But 11 received a "C" grade and two were graded a "D," 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 here.

A Grades

• Allegheny General Hospital, North Side

• St. Clair Health, Mt. Lebanon

• UPMC St. Margaret, near Aspinwall

• UPMC Passavant, McCandless

• UPMC East, Monroeville

• Forbes, Monroeville

• Allegheny Health Network, Wexford

• UPMC Passavant, Cranberry

• Allegheny Valley, Harrison

• Independence Health System Frick, Mt. Pleasant

• East Liverpool City, East Liverpool

B Grades

• UPMC Mercy, Uptown

• UPMC Presbyerian, Oakland

• UPMC Shadyside, Shadyside

• Butler Memorial

• Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville

C Grades

• West Penn, Bloomfield

• Jefferson Regional Medical Center

• UPMC McKeesport,

• Heritage Valley, Sewickley

• Canonsburg General

• Washington

• Independence Health System Westmoreland, Greensburg

• Heritage Valley Beaver

• Uniontown

• Independence Health System, Latrobe

• Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning

D Grades

• Penn Highlands Mon Valley, Monongahela

• Weirton Medical Center