These 8 Sacramento-area hospitals are some of the safest in the U.S., report says. See why

Eight Sacramento-area hospitals are among the safest in the nation, according to a nonprofit organization that studies patient safety and care.

The Leapfrog Group issues Hospital Safety Grade reports twice a year for nearly 3,000 general hospitals in the United States based on rates of preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections, as well as the systems hospitals use to prevent those.

The group’s latest report, released Wednesday and searchable as an online database, grades health care facilities across the nation on a scale of A to F — with A being the highest grade and F the lowest.

Out of 20 Sacramento-area hospitals, eight received A grades for spring 2024.

They included Mercy General Hospital, 4001 J St. in Sacramento, which excelled at having effective leadership and practices to prevent errors, according to the Leapfrog report.

A total of nine hospitals received B grades, including Kaiser Foundation Hospital, 2025 Morse Ave. in Sacramento. That hospital scored high on its work to avoid harmful events such as patient falls and dangerous blood clots, the report found.

Three hospitals received C grades in total.

University of California Davis Medical Center, 4301 X St. in Sacramento, scored lower on its efforts to stop infections and problems with surgery, Leapfrog said, but performed well in terms of ordering and administering medications.

How safe are Sacramento-area hospitals?

Here are the Leapfrog Group’s hospital safety grades for hospitals in Sacramento and the surrounding area:

A grades

• Mercy General Hospital, 4001 J St. in Sacramento
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital, 6600 Bruceville Road in Sacramento
• Methodist Hospital, 7500 Hospital Drive in Sacramento
• Mercy San Juan Medical Center, 6501 Coyle Ave in Carmichael
• Woodland Memorial Hospital, 1325 Cottonwood St. in Woodland
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital, 1600 Eureka Road in Roseville
• NorthBay VacaValley Hospital, 1000 Nut Tree Road in Vacaville
• NorthBay Medical Center, 1200 B. Gale Wilson Blvd. in Fairfield

B grades

• Kaiser Foundation Hospital, 2025 Morse Ave. in Sacramento
• Sutter Davis Hospital, 2000 Sutter Place in Davis
• Sutter Roseville Medical Center, 1 Medical Plaza Drive in Roseville
• Mercy Hospital of Folsom, 1650 Creekside Drive in Folsom
• Kaiser Foundation Hospital, 1 Quality Drive in Vacaville
• Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital, 11815 Education St. in Auburn
• David Grant Medical Center, 101 Bodin Circle in Travis
• Adventist Health and Rideout, 726 4th St. in Marysville
• Marshall Medical Center, 1100 Marshall Way in Placerville

C grades

• Sutter Medical Center, 2825 Capitol Ave. in Sacramento
• University of California Davis Medical Center, 4301 X St. in Sacramento
• Adventist Health Lodi Medical, 975 Fairmont Ave. in Lodi
  
  

How are hospitals graded by Leapfrog Group?

The Leapfrog Group grades hospitals on a scale of A to F based on “overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.”

The group said it came up with its hospital safety grades by looking at up to 30 national performance measures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and other supplemental data sources.

Leapfrog then worked under the guidance of a panel of patient safety experts to select about two dozen “evidence-based measures” — divided into five key categories — and develop a scoring methodology .

Those categories are:

• Infections
• Problems with surgery
• Safety problems
• Practices to prevent errors
• Doctors, nurses and hospital staff

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