Celebrating the Best in Patient Safety: Healthgrades Announces 2025 Top Hospitals for Patient Safety

Healthgrades is proud to recognize outstanding achievements in patient care

DENVER, March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthgrades, the #1 site Americans use when searching for a doctor or hospital, today announced the recipients of the 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award™. This award recognizes hospitals that excel at providing top-quality care while preventing serious safety events during hospital stays. This year's recipients include 442 hospitals from 40 states and represent the top 10% of hospitals in the nation for patient safety.

Patient safety is a vital component of achieving the best possible health outcomes, ensuring that serious injuries and complications are minimized for patients during hospital stays. In fact, if all hospitals performed similarly to the 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award winners, they could have avoided 100,891 patient safety events between 2021 and 2023.

"As one of the most important aspects of hospital quality, patient safety should always be a top consideration for consumers seeking the best care possible," said Debra Gradick, MD FACEP, senior physician consultant at Healthgrades. "Healthgrades' Patient Safety Excellence Award offers transparent, data-driven insights on hospitals that consistently place patient safety at the forefront and deliver exceptional results in this aspect of care. With this information consumers can feel confident they are making an informed decision about their healthcare."

This award is based on an analysis of inpatient MedPAR data that measures clinical performance across 13 patient safety indicators (PSI), with each PSI representing a serious, potentially preventable complication.* Healthgrades' analysis found that four PSIs accounted for nearly 76% of all patient safety events between 2021 and 2023 and that patients treated at a 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient hospital have a lower risk of experiencing each of these adverse events:

• In-hospital fall resulting in fracture (54% less likely)
• Collapsed lung due to a procedure or surgery in or around the chest (54.8% less likely)
• Pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital (69.4% less likely)
• Catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital (72% less likely)

View the full Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient list and methodology on healthgrades.com. See the complete award methodologies for more information on how Healthgrades rates hospital quality.

*Statistics are calculated from Healthgrades Patient Safety Award methodology which is based primarily on AHRQ technical specifications (Version 2024.0.1) to MedPAR data for years 2021 through 2023 and represent three-year estimates for Medicare patients only. To be eligible for the award, hospitals must meet certain clinical quality thresholds, have zero instances in which a foreign object was left behind during a procedure, and have data on at least seven out of eight core PSIs.

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