How safe is your hospital?
The Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score rankings used 28 measures to determine a grade for hospitals that represents its overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.
As many as 440,000 people a year die each year from hospital errors, injuries, accidents and infections, according to The Leapfrog Group, which pulled data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey and Health Information Technology Supplement.

Additionally, the group said, one in every 25 patients develops an infection while hospitalized; a Medicare patient has a one in four chance of experiencing injury, harm or death; and iIn a typical day, more than 1,000 people die because of a preventable hospital error.
Hospitals in Michigan are, collectively, the 21st safest in the country. Eighty hospitals were ranked, and 19 — or 23.8 percent of them — received A ratings, The A-rated hospitals were among 773 nationwide.
Eight Metro Detroit hospitals got the top based on national performance measures from the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, 12 scored a B, eight got a C and one got an F.
Below are ranked hospitals in the Detroit Metro area. Click on the link to find out more about where they did well and where they faltered.

A Grade

B Grade

C Grade

F Grade