Philadelphia, PA, November 15, 2024 – The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit, representing hundreds of the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care, announced the fall 2024 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. Driven in southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware by the Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health (GPBCH), these grades provide a critical measure of patient safety for hospitals nationwide. 15 hospitals in the Philadelphia Region and 2 hospitals in Delaware earned an “A,” and Pennsylvania ranked ninth in the country overall for percentage of “A” hospitals.

With over 3,000 hospitals participating in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, representing almost 80% of hospital beds in the U.S., the latest grades show hospitals nationwide are making strides in patient safety across several performance measures including improvements in healthcare-associated infections, hand hygiene and medication safety.

For the fall 2024 Safety Grades in southeastern Pennsylvania, 35 hospitals were graded, and 15 earned an “A”, 4 earned a “B”, 14 earned a “C”, and 2 earned a “D”. In Delaware, 7 hospitals were graded, 2 earned an “A”, 1 earned a “B”, and 4 earned a “C”.

“The progress we’ve witnessed at the hospitals in the Greater Philadelphia Region is encouraging and worthy of applause. However, there is still much work to be done to continue making gains in patient safety,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “We commend the hospitals in southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware that are clearly focusing on prioritizing patients and their safety—an effort that takes absolute dedication from hospital staff at all levels.”

"Knowing that the Safety Grade is associated with patient outcomes and costs of care, we encourage health plans to use this information in contracting with and providing incentives to the region's hospitals, and we encourage employers, whether or not they are members of our Coalition, to use the information to educate the workforce and to drive volume toward safer facilities,” said Neil Goldfarb, GPBCH President and CEO. “We are particularly concerned about the persistent D ratings for the Crozer system hospitals. Until their issues are resolved, we strongly encourage employers and employees to seek care elsewhere."

The Leapfrog Group has a more than 10-year history of assigning letter grades to general hospitals throughout the U.S., based on a hospital’s ability to prevent medical errors and harm to patients. The grading system is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Hospital Safety Grade results are based on more than 30 national performance measures and are updated each fall and spring. For more information about the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, detailed hospital performance information, including patient experience and safety measures, as well as grades for individual hospitals searchable by states and localities, please visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org.

About the Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health
The Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health (GPBCH) seeks to increase the value of health benefit spending for the region’s employers. We do this by improving workforce and community health, increasing healthcare quality and safety, and reducing health care costs. The Coalition represents employer interests in working with health plans, health care providers, benefits consultants, suppliers and other system stakeholders to address population health priorities and to ensure that when health care is needed it is accessible, affordable, equitable, high-quality, and safe.

About The Leapfrog Group
Founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is an independent national nonprofit organization driving a movement for giant leaps for patient safety. Among its initiatives, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade was launched in 2012 and assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety, helping consumers protect themselves and their families from errors, injuries, accidents and infections. It is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospital prevention of medical errors and harm to patients. It is fully transparent and free to the public, and grades are updated biannually in the fall and in the spring. To look up your hospital’s Safety Grade, please visit  HospitalSafetyGrade.org. For more from Leapfrog, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn,  Facebook and Instagram and sign up for our newsletter. 


Media Contact
Tanika Smith
Vice President, Member Services & Communications
Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health
123 South Broad Street, Suite 1235
Philadelphia, PA 19109
609-828-6745
tsmith@gpbch.org
www.gpbch.org