Pittsburgh Hospital Safety Grades: Fall 2025

PITTSBURGH, PA — Ten 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 nine received a "C" grade and two were graded a "D," meaning patients there 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 for Pittsburgh-area hospitals:

A Grades

UPMC Mercy, Uptown

St. Clair Health, Mt. Lebanon

UPMC St. Margaret, near Aspinwall

Jefferson Medical Center, Jefferson

UPMC Passavant, McCandless

UPMC East Monroeville, Monroeville

Allegheny Health Network, Wexford

Canonsburg General, Canonsburg

UPMC Passavant, Cranberry

Allegheny Valley, Harrison

B Grades

West Penn, Lawrenceville

UPMC McKeesport, McKeesport

Forbes, Monroeville

C Grades

Allegheny General, North Side

UPMC Presbyterian, Oakland

UPMC Shadyside

Heritage Valley Sewickley

Independence Health System, Westmoreland

Heritage Valley Beaver

Independence Health System, Butler

Independence Health System, Latrobe

Armstrong County Memorial, Kittanning

D Grades

Penn Highlands, Monongahela

Weirton Memorial, Weirton