North Carolina Hospital Safety Grades: Here’s How Local Hospitals Scored

How safe is the hospital you're choosing for care? Any time you are receiving any form of medical treatment you want to make sure you're getting the best and safest treatment possible. Luckily for more than 20 years, The Leapfrog Group has published hospital data on safety and quality. According to their website, they undertake this endeavor in order to "push the health care industry forward". This helps consumers find high-value care and make informed health care decisions. They release data for the entire country but we've narrowed it down for you North Carolina, with the hospital safety grades for the greater Charlotte area.

Our region is home to two large hospital systems both Atrium and Novant as well as some smaller regional facilities. Overall the vast majority of hospitals received "A" grades. Though a couple of North and South Carolina hospitals even received a "C" hospital safety grade. Ouch. Can't say I'll be seeking care there. Hopefully these grades do their intended purpose though and lead to change benefitting the patients.

According to Leapfrog:

Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades (formerly known as Hospital Safety Scores) are assigned to nearly 3,000 general acute-care hospitals across the nation twice annually. The Safety Grade is the gold standard measure of patient safety, cited in MSNBC, The New York Times, and AARP The Magazine.

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses more than 30 national performance measures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Additional information is gathered from the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and information from other supplemental data sources. Taken together, those performance measures produce a single letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance. This includes keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade methodology has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Patient Safety.

Overall Grade: A

Address: 1000 Blythe Boulevard
Charlotte, North Carolina 28203-5871

Overall Grade: A

Address: 1000 Blythe Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28203-5871

Overall Grade: A

Address: 200 Hawthorne Lane
Charlotte, NC 28204-2528

Overall Grade: B

Address: 10628 Park Rd
Charlotte, NC 28210

Overall Grade: A

Address: 1500 Matthews Township Parkway
Matthews, NC 28105-4656

Overall Grade: A

Address: 8201 Healthcare Loop
Charlotte, NC 28215-7072

Overall Grade: A

Address: 8800 N. Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28262-8415

Overall Grade: A

Address: 10030 Gilead Road
Huntersville, NC 28078

Overall Grade: A

Address: 2525 COURT DR
GASTONIA, NC 28054-2142

Overall Grade: A

Address: 433 McAlister Rd
Lincolnton, NC 28092

Overall Grade: A

Address: 706 West King St
Kings Mountain, NC 28086-2708

Overall Grade: A

Address: 201 East Grover St
Shelby, NC 28150

Overall Grade: B

Address: 171 Fairview Road
Mooresville, NC 28117

Overall Grade: B

Address: 557 Brookdale Drive
Statesville, NC 28677-1828

Overall Grade: C

Address: 218 Old Mocksville Road
Statesville, NC 28625-1930

Overall Grade: A

Address: 920 Church Street
Concord, NC 28025-2983

Overall Grade: A

Address: 612 Mocksville Avenue
Salisbury, NC 28144-2799

Overall Grade: A

Address: 301 Yadkin Street
Albemarle, NC 28001-3448

Overall Grade: B

Address: 600 Hospital Drive
Monroe, NC 28112-6000

Overall Grade: B

Address: 222 S. Herlong Avenue
Rock Hill, SC 29732-1952

Overall Grade: C

Address: 800 W. Meeting Street
Lancaster, SC 29720-2298