81 FL Hospitals Earn ‘A’ Grades In New Hospital Safety Ranking

A new hospital safety report released Wednesday shows that 81 hospitals in Florida earned “A” grades for their ability to protect patients from often preventable harm.

The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2026 Hospital Safety Grades are a biannual ranking that assigns “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” letter grades to all general hospitals in the United States based on their ability to protect patients from medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections.

Several facilities in Florida were designated “Straight A” hospitals for sustaining their top scores for five or more consecutive grading periods. Those hospitals were:

• AdventHealth Apopka
• AdventHealth Carrollwood, Tampa
• AdventHealth Celebration
• AdventHealth Dade City
• AdventHealth DeLand
• AdventHealth East Orlando, Orlando
• AdventHealth Fish Memorial, Orange City
• AdventHealth Kissimmee
• AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach
• AdventHealth Ocala
• AdventHealth Orlando
• AdventHealth Wesley Chapel
• AdventHealth Winter Park
• AdventHealth Zephyrhills
• Baptist Health South Miami Hospital
• Baptist Health West Kendall, Miami
• Baptist Medical Center Beaches, Jacksonville Beach
• Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Fernandina Beach
• Cape Coral Hospital
• HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, Miami
• HCA Florida North Florida Hospital, Gainesville
• HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital, Tampa
• HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital, Port St. Lucie
• Healthpark Medical Center, Fort Myers
• Jupiter Medical Center
• Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers
• Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
• Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor
• Mease Dunedin Hospital
• Memorial Hospital Miramar
• Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater
• Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, New Port Richey
• Orlando Health South Lake Hospital, Clermont
• Oviedo Medical Center
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Venice
• St. Anthony’s Hospital, St. Petersburg
• St. Joseph’s Hospital, Tampa
• St. Joseph’s Hospital - North, Lutz
• St. Joseph’s Hospital- South, Riverview
• Winter Haven Hospital

Other “A” hospitals in Florida are:

• AdventHealth Lake Wales
• AdventHealth North Pinellas, Tarpon Springs
• AdventHealth Palm Coast
• AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway, Palm Coast
• AdventHeart Sacred Heart Hospital, Miramar Beach
• AdventHealth Winter Garden
• Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
• Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside, Jacksonville
• Baptist Health Baptist Hospital of Miami
• Baptist Health Doctors Hospital, Coral Gables
• Baptist Health Homestead Hospital
• Baptist Health Hospital - Doral
• Bartow Regional Medical Center
• BayCare Hospital Wesley Chapel
• Broward Health Coral Springs
• Cleveland Clinic Hospital Weston
• Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, Vero Beach
• Coral Gables Hospital
• Flagler Hospital, St. Augustine
• HCA Florida Englewood Hospital
• HCA Florida Highlands Hospital, Sebring
• HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital, Brooksville
• HCA Florida Putnam Hospital, Palatka
• HCA Florida Raulerson Hospital, Okeechobee
• HCA Florida Twin Cities Hospital, Niceville
• Hialeah Hospital
• Lakewood Ranch Medical Center
• Larkin Community Hospital, South Miami
• Larkin Community Hospiotal - Palm Springs Campus, Hialeah
• Manatee Memorial Hospital, Bradenton
• Naval Hospital Jacksonville
• Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, St. Petersburg
• Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Orlando
• Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital, Winter Garden
• Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital
• Santa Rosa Medical Center, Milton
• St. Vincent’s Medical Center Clay County, Middleburg
• Tamp General Hospital Crystal River
• Viera Hospital, Melbourne

“B” hospitals are:

• AdventHealth Altamonte Springs
• AdventHealth Daytona Beach
• AdventHealth Heart of Florida, Davenport
• AdventHealth Lake Placid
• AdventHealth Sebring
• AdventHealth Tampa
• AdventHealth Waterman, Tavares
• Ascension St. Vincent’s St. Johns County, St. Johns
• Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital
• Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville
• Baptist Medical Center South, Jacksonville
• Broward Health Imperial Point, Fort Lauderdale
• Broward Health North, Deerfield Beach
• Cape Canaveral Hospital, Cocoa Beach
• Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital, Stuart
• Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital, Port St. Lucie
• Gulf Coast Medical Center, Fort Myers
• Halifax Health UF Health Medical Center of Deltona
• HCA Florida Aventura Hospital
• HCA Florida Blake Hospital, Bradenton
• HCA Florida Brandon Hospital
• HCA Florida Citrus Hospital, Inverness
• HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital, Port Charlotte
• HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital, Fort Walton Beach
• HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital, Panama City
• HCA Florida Lake City Hospital
• HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital, Lehigh Acres
• HCA Florida Mercy Hospital, Miami
• HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital
• HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital
• HCA Florida St. Petersburg Hospital
• HCA Florida Trinity Hospital
• HCA Florida West Hospital, Pensacola
• HCA Florida Westside Hospital, Plantation
• HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital, Tamarac
• Holmes Regional Medical Center, Melbourne
• Jackson North Medical Center, North Miami Beach
• Jackson South Medical Center, Miami
• Jackson West Medical Center, Doral
• Lower Keys Medical Center, Key West
• Memorial Hospital Pembroke, Pembroke Pines
• Memorial Hospital West, Pembroke Pines
• Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood
• Memoril Regional Hospital South, Hollywood
• NCH Baker Hospital, Naples
• NCH North Naples Hospital, Naples
• Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital
• Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital, Sebastian
• Orlando Health - Health Central Hospital, Ocoee
• Orlando Health - Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando
• Physicians Regional Healthcare System - Collier, Naples
• South Florida Baptist Hospital, Plant City
• St. Vincent’s Medical Center Southside, Jacksonville
• Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare
• UF Health Jacksonville
• UF Health Leesburg Hospital
• UF Health North, Jacksonville
• UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville
• UF Health-Spanish Plaines, The Villages

Additionally, two hospitals received a ‘D’ and 41 got a ‘C’ grade.

Florida ranks No. 7 among all states for the percentage of hospitals receiving “A” grades in the spring 2026 report card.

Leapfrog said its biannual report — the only national ratings program focused exclusively on patient safety — shows improvement in 17 measures, including health care-associated infections, medication safety systems and patient experience.

“The good news is that hospitals across the country are making meaningful strides in patient safety and helping save countless lives,” Leah Binder, the group’s president and CEO, said in a news release.

After peaking in fall 2022, several health care-associated infections declined sharply, according to the report. Central line-associated bloodstream infections fell by half; catheter-associated urinary tract infections dropped 45 percent; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections declined 42 percent; and serious intestinal infections linked to antibiotic use went down 30 percent.

The report also found gains in medication safety. Use of computerized physician order entry systems, which can flag prescribing errors, rose from 66 percent of hospitals meeting Leapfrog standards in 2018 to 90 percent in 2025. Adoption of barcode medication administration systems increased from 47 percent to 93 percent over the same period.

Patient experience scores, measured through Medicare and other federal surveys, have improved since hitting a low in fall 2023, rising by about one point on average across five safety-related measures, including communication with nurses and doctors and responsiveness of hospital staff.

Among states, Connecticut, Virginia and South Carolina had the highest share of A-rated hospitals, followed by Utah, Montana, New Jersey, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and California. Montana and Maryland entered the top 10 for the first time, while Florida rose from 15th place in fall 2025 to seventh. No hospitals in North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont or Wyoming received an A grade.

About 450 hospitals were not assigned grades after a federal court ruling in South Florida involving several facilities that did not participate in Leapfrog’s 2024 or 2025 survey. The group said it applied the change nationwide and is appealing the decision while reviewing its methodology.