Tennessee Hospital Safety Grades Released For Fall 2018

15 Tennessee hospitals received an A grade in hospital safety, according to new Fall 2018 ratings released by the Leapfrog Group on Thursday. The nonprofit group found that of the more than 2,600 hospitals graded in the country, 32 percent earned an A grade.

The Leapfrog Group explains that its rating system is focused entirely on errors, accidents, injuries and infections. The hospital safety grades are released by the nonprofit group twice a year, in the spring and in the fall.

New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Massachusetts and Texas had the highest percentage of hospitals that received an A grade. The states with the lowest percentage of A grade hospitals are Connecticut, Nebraska, Washington D.C., Delaware and North Dakota, according to Leapfrog. Washington D.C., Delaware and North Dakota did not have a single hospital that received an A grade.

Here are the grades Tennessee hospitals were given by the Leapfrog Group:

A Grade

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City, Union City

Hardin Medical Center, Savannah

Lincoln Medical Center, Fayeteville

Maury Regional Hospital, Columbia

Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge

Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System, Morristown

Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett, Barltett

Sycamore Shoals Hospital, Elizabethton

The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville

Tristar Centennial Medical Center, Nashville

Tristar Horizon Medical Center, Dickson

Tristar Skyline Medical Center, Nashville

Tristar Southern Hills Medical Center, Nashville

Tristar Summit Medical Center, Hermitage

Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville

B Grade

Baptist Memorial Hospital of Memphis, Memphis

Cumberland Medical Center, Crossville

Erlanger Baroness Hospital, Chattanooga

Erlanger East Hospital, Chattanooga

Fort Loudoun Medical Center, Lenoir City

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville

Indian Path Medical Center, Kingsport

Livingston Regional Hospital, Livingston

Memorial Hixson Hospital, Hixson

Memorial Hospital Chattanooga, Chattanooga

Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital, Germantown

Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville

Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis, Memphis

Saint Thomas West Hospital, Nashville

Southern Tennessee Regional Health System-Lawrenceburg, Lawrenceburg

Starr Regional Medical Center, Athens

Sumner Regional Medical Center, Gallatin

Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center, Hendersonville

Tristar StoneCrest Medical Center, Smyrna

Turkey Creek Medical Center, Knoxville

Williamson Medical Center, Franklin

C Grade

Baptist Memorial Hospital of Collierville, Collierville

Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville

Cookeville Regional Medical Center, Cookeville

Franklin Woods Community Hospital, Johnson City

Henry County Medical Center, Paris

Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, Jackson

Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City

Laughlin Memorial Hospital, Greeneville

Methodist North Hospital, Memphis

Methodist South Hospital, Memphis

Methodist Univeristy Hospital, Memphis

Nashville General Hospital, Nashville

North Knoxville Medical Center, Powell

Northcrest Medical Center, Springfield

Parkridge East Hospital, Chattanooga

Parkridge Medical Center, Chattanooga

Physicians Regional Medical Center, Knoxville

Roane Medical Center, Harriman

Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital, Nashville

Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital, Murfreesboro

Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Sewanee, Sewanee

Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester, Winchester

Tennova Healthcare-Cleveland Main Campus, Cleveland

Tennova Healthcare-Cleveland West Campus, Cleveland

Tennova Healthcare Dyersburg Regional Medical Center, Dyersburg

Tennova Healthcare-Shelbyville, Shelbyville

Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol

D Grade

LeConte Medical Center, Sevierville

Regional One Health, Memphis

“Health care was an important issue in the 2018 midterm elections, yet both parties are still neglecting the third leading cause of death in America—errors and infections in hospitals,” Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said in a press release. “Every elected official, from city councilors, to senators, to the President, should hold hospitals accountable and support efforts to improve patient safety.”

Leapfrog assigns A,B,C,D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States. Leapfrog explains that the safety grade includes 28 measures that are taken together to “produce a single letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.” The group uses performance measures from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (You can read more about the letter grades here.)

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