Pittsburgh Hospital Safety Grades: Spring 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 12 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 for Pittsburgh-area hospitals:

A Grades

Allegheny Health Network Wexford, Wexford

Allegheny Valley, Harrison

Forbes, Monroeville

St. Clair Health, Mt. Lebanon

UPMC East, Monroeville

UPMC Mercy, Uptown

UPMC Passavant, McCandless

UPMC Passavant, Cranberry

UPMC St. Margaret, Aspinwall

East Liverpool City

B Grades

Allegheny General, North Side

Jefferson Regional, Jefferson Hills

Canonsburg General, Canonsburg

Butler Memorial, Butler

C Grades

UPMC Presbyterian, Shadyside

West Penn, Lawrenceville

UPMC Shadyside

UPMC McKeesport

UPMC Heritage Valley, Sewickley

UPMC Washington

Westmoreland Hospital Independence Health, Greensburg

Armstrong County Memorial, Kittanning

Uniontown

Latrobe Hospital Indepence Health

Heritage Valley, Beaver

D Grades

Penn Highlands Mon Valley, Monongahela

Weirton Medical Center