Hospitals across the country show staggering variation when it comes to patient safety, according to Hospital Safety Score, and now the company has compiled data to find not only which states are the safest for patients, but pinpointed which hospitals in each state give the best patient care.
“When we talk about patient safety, we’re really talking about how hospitals and other health care organizations protect their patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections,” the report reads.
Nearly 440,000 people die each year from hospital errors that could have been preventable, according to the company.
The rankings were found by comparing the percentage of A-graded hospitals to the total number of hospitals operating in the state, and Illinois came in sixth.
Maine took the No. 1 spot with 68 percent of state hospitals being Grade A, followed by Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, New Jersey, Illinois, Tennessee North Carolina, Colorado and Georgia to round out the top 10.
The worst states for medical care were found to be Alaska, District of Columbia, North Dakota, New Mexico, Vermont and Wyoming – all of which had absolutely no hospitals available with a Grade A rating, giving them a flat 0 percent score.
In the study launched in 2012, 117 Illinois hospitals were graded on a total of 28 different safety measures, and 51 received overall A grades, Crain’s Chicago Business reported, and 18 of those got impressive straight-A’s across the board in each measure.
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Luckily, no hospitals in the state garnered a flunking F rating, but seven received D scores, making them the lowest ranking hospitals in the state.
One of those D-rated hospitals, Advocate Trinity Hospital, told Crain’s that since the data was first collected in 2012 they have since made “dramatic improvements.”
These were the hospitals with the straight-A rankings, Crain’s was the first to report:
• AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates
• Advocate Condell Medical Center, Libertyville
• Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove
• Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington
• Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago
• Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge
• Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst
• HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital, Breese
• MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn
• Morris Hospital, Morris
• Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield
• OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington
• OSF St. Mary Medical Center, Galesburg
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
• Rush-Copley Medical Center, Aurora
• Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago
• University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago
• West Suburban Medical Center, Oak Park
And the Illinois hospitals that were given D rankings are as follows:
• Advocate Trinity Hospital, Chicago
• Franciscan St. James Health, Chicago Heights
• Franciscan St. James health, Olympia Fields
• Holy Cross Hospital, Chicago
• Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago
• Passavant Area Hospital, Jacksonville
• Westlake Hospital, Melrose Park
To read the entire study and detailed scores of each individual hospital, see them here.
