Hospital Safety Grades Released: Where Abbott Northwestern Ranks

SOUTHWEST MINNEAPOLIS — Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis is among the safest hospitals in the state, according to a new report.

Abbott earned an "A" grade from the Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades report released Wednesday by the Leapfrog Group.

The Leapfrog Group is an independent nonprofit health care watchdog group that uses an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety.

Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.

In Minnesota, 15 hospitals received an A, eight hospitals received a B, 19 hospitals received a C and four hospitals received a D grade. Zero Minnesota hospitals received an F.

Below are Leapfrog's grades for Minnesota:

A

• Olmsted Medical Center
• Mayo Clinic Hospital - Saint Marys Campus
• Mayo Clinic Health System - Red Wing
• Lake Region Healthcare
• Methodist Hospital
• Abbott Northwestern Hospital
• Mayo Clinic Hospital - Methodist Campus
• Lakeview Hospital
• Owatonna Hospital
• Buffalo Hospital
• M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital
• Mayo Clinic Health System - Mankato
• Mayo Clinic Health System - Austin
• Mayo Clinic Health System - Fairmont
• Hutchinson Health Hospital

B

• Northfield Hospital
• M Health Fairview St. Joseph's Hospital
• Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
• Regions Hospital
• M Health Fairview Northland Medical Center
• M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital
• M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital
• M Health Fairview Woodwinds Hospital

C

• Essentia Health Saint Mary's Medical Center
• Hennepin Healthcare
• Cambridge Medical Center
• Sanford Worthington Medical Center
• Alomere Health
• St. Cloud Hospital
• United Hospital
• Fairview Range
• Winona Health
• M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center
• Ridgeview Medical Center
• Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital
• Essentia Health - Saint Joseph's Medical Center
• M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center - West Bank Hospital
• Essentia Health - Virginia Clinic
• Essentia Health St. Mary's - Detroit Lakes
• Mercy Hospital
• Mercy Hospital - Unity Campus
• Maple Grove Hospital

D

• North Memorial Health Hospital
• St. Luke's Hospital
• Carris Health - Rice Memorial Hospital
• St. Francis Regional Medical Center