Nine BayCare Hospitals Earn Top Score for Patient Safety

The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization that promotes patient safety, announced its Fall 2024 Hospital Safety Grades today, and nine of BayCare’s acute-care hospitals received an “A,” the group’s highest rating. 

The Leapfrog Group collects and analyzes data about infections, accidents, injuries, and errors at nearly 3,000 general hospitals. In the spring and fall, the Leapfrog Group assigns them letter grades ranging from “A” to “F” and releases those grades publicly. 

The hospitals that earned an “A” are Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, Mease Dunedin Hospital, Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Morton Plant North Bay Hospital in New Port Richey, St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, St. Joseph’s Hospital-North in Lutz, St. Joseph’s Hospital-South in Riverview and Winter Haven Hospital.  

“At BayCare, our commitment to patient safety is at the heart of everything we do,” said Dr. Laura Arline, BayCare’s chief quality officer. “We are incredibly proud of our achievement in the Fall 2024 Leapfrog Safety Grades, which showcases our team’s dedication to providing the safest, highest-quality care to the patients in our communities.” 

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is a composite score that is comprised of the following: 

• More than 30 national performance measures collected and reported publicly by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 
• The Leapfrog Hospital Survey 
• Information gathered from other supplemental data sources

Learn more about BayCare's 16 hospitals.