The Leapfrog Group updated its safety grades yesterday, and 18 hospitals in North Texas received an ‘A’ rating. That’s of the 52 hospitals graded in the region. Of the remaining, 21 received ‘B’ grades and 13 got a ‘C’. About 2,500 hospitals across the country received a grade.
Leapfrog, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit, analyzes 27 publicly available hospital safety measures to assign grades twice a year. If you’re curious about hospitals outside of North Texas or want to go back further in time, the organization has a search tool on its website. Below, the grades for every hospital in the region this go around, with fall grades in parentheses:
‘A’ Grades:
• Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital (fall grade: A)
• Baylor Scott & White – McKinney (fall grade: A)
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-White Rock (fall grade: B)
• Baylor Scott and White Medical Center – Lake Pointe (fall grade: B)
• Medical City Denton (fall grade: A)
• Medical City Las Colinas (fall grade: A)
• Medical City Lewisville (fall grade: A)
• Medical City McKinney (fall grade: A)
• Medical City North Hills (fall grade: B)
• Medical City Plano (fall grade: A)
• Medical City Weatherford (fall grade: A)
• Methodist Dallas Medical Center (fall grade: A)
• Methodist Mansfield Medical Center (fall grade: B)
• Methodist Richardson Medical Center (fall grade: B)
• Texas Health Huguley Hospital (fall grade: A)
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Rockwall (fall grade: A)
• Texoma Medical Center Denison (fall grade: C)
• William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital (fall grade: A)
‘B’ Grades:
• Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth (fall grade: B)
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial (fall grade: B)
• Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas (fall grade: B)
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Garland (fall grade: B)
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Irving (fall grade: B)
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Sunnyvale (fall grade: C)
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Waxahachie (fall grade: A)
• Dallas Regional Medical Center (fall grade: C)
• John Peter Smith Hospital (fall grade: C)
• Medical City Arlington (fall grade: B)
• Medical City Dallas (fall grade: B)
• Medical City Fort Worth (fall grade: C)
• Methodist Charlton Medical Center (fall grade: B)
• Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital (fall grade: B)
• Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance (fall grade: B)
• Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne (fall grade: B)
• Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth (fall grade: C)
• Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford (fall grade: A)
• Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth (fall grade: A)
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen (fall grade: B)
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano (fall grade: B)
‘C’ Grades:
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center at Carrollton (fall grade: C)
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center at Grapevine (fall grade: C)
• Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano (fall grade: B)
• Dallas Medical Center (fall grade: C)
• East Texas Medical Center of Athens (fall grade: B)
• Hunt Regional Medical Center of Greenville (fall grade: C)
• Parkland Health & Hospital System (fall grade: C)
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas (fall grade: B)
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton (fall grade: C)
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound (fall grade: B)
• USMD Hospital at Arlington (fall grade: C)
• UT Southwestern University Hospital – Zale Lipshy Campus (fall grade: A)
• Wise Health System – East Campus Decatur (fall grade: C)
