UPMC Passavant Cranberry Hospital Safety Grade: Spring 2022

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PA — A dozen southwestern Pennsylvania hospitals received an "A" grade for preventing medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections in a nationwide hospital safety analysis. But four received a "C" grade and one was 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.

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

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 Tuesday by Leapfrog.

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

• UPMC Presbyterian, Oakland

• UPMC Shadyside, Shadyside

• St. Clair Hospital, Mt. Lebanon

• UPMC St. Margaret, Aspinwall

• Heritage Valley, Sewickley

• UPMC East, Monroeville

• UPMC Passavant, Cranberry

• Washington Hospital, Washington

• Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg

• Butler Memorial Hospital, Butler

• Latrobe Hospital, Latrobe

B grades

• UPMC Mercy, Uptown

• West Penn Hospital, Bloomfield

• Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Jefferson

• UPMC McKeesport, McKeesport

• Forbes Hospital, Monroeville

• Canonsburg General Hospital, Canonsburg

• Heritage Valley Beaver, Beaver

C grades

• Allegheny Valley Hospital, Harrison

• Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Kittanning

D grades

• Heritage Valley, Kennedy

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