Healthgrades announces 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipients

Editor's Note

Recognizing hospitals that excel at providing top-quality care while preventing serious safety events, Healthgrades’ 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Awards distinguish 442 hospitals in 40 different states.

Announced March 11, the awards are based on inpatient MedPAR data from 2021 to 2023. Recognized hospitals must meet clinical quality thresholds, report data on at least seven of eight core PSIs, and have zero instances of foreign objects left behind during procedures. The methodology is based on technical specifications from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

According to the organization, 100,891 patient safety events could have been prevented during the study period if all hospitals performed at the level of the award recipients. The organization also identifies four specific complications that accounted for nearly 76% of all patient safety events. Patients treated at award-winning hospitals were significantly less likely to experience all four of these issues, which include:

• in-hospital falls resulting in fractures (54% lower risk)
• collapsed lung due to chest procedures (54.8% lower risk)
• hospital-acquired pressure sores (69.4% lower risk)
• catheter-related bloodstream infections (72% lower risk)

The full list of Patient Safety Excellence Award recipients and detailed methodology is available on Healthgrades.com.