Leapfrog’s spring 2024 report gave letter grades for safety to some 3,000 hospitals nationally, including 49 in the Philadelphia region, which includes the city’s Pennsylvania suburbs, South Jersey and Wilmington, Del. Specialty hospitals, such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, were not graded.

Leapfrog, an independent nonprofit, assesses hospitals on hand-washing, infection rates, patient falls and other factors.

Leapfrog, a national watchdog nonprofit, gives A-F grades to hospitals nationwide twice a year for patient safety. The organization uses more than 20 factors, including rates of preventable errors, injuries and infections to help patients pick the best hospital near them for care.

A third of nonprofit hospitals received "A" safety grades from the Leapfrog Group, compared with 28% of for-profit and 17% of government-owned facilities.

Search the chart below for your hospital’s patient safety grade. A is best and F is worst. Leapfrog didn’t give grades to specialty hospitals, such as children hospitals, surgical centers, critical access hospitals and veteran hospitals. To read a more detailed report about your hospital’s score, visit hospitalsafetygrade.org/

Just 12% of hospitals in New York received high grades for how well they prevented infections, injuries and medical errors, a new report shows. Seventeen hospitals statewide earned an A for patient safety,