The Leapfrog Group on Tuesday released its 2020 Top Hospitals list, recognizing 105 hospitals for excellence in hospital quality, patient safety, and efficiency.
Just updated: How Leapfrog chooses its Top Hospitals
Methodology
For the list, Leapfrog sorts hospitals into five categories and compares hospitals with their peers. The five categories Leapfrog uses are:
- Children's hospitals;
- General hospitals;
- Large teaching hospitals (500 or more staffed beds);
- Small teaching hospitals (fewer than 500 staffed beds); and
- Rural hospitals.
To be eligible for recognition on the list, a hospital must:
- Comply with Leapfrog's never events policy;
- Meet Leapfrog's standard for computerized physician order entry;
- Meet Leapfrog's standard for ICU physician staffing;
- Receive an "A" on Leapfrog's most recent Safety Grade rating;
- Report on all 36 national performance measures considered by Leapfrog that are applicable to the hospital and meet Leapfrog's standards for at least 40% of those measures; and
- Satisfy the Top Hospital Selection Committee's qualitative review.
The Top Hospitals of 2020
Leapfrog recognized 82 Advisory Board members on this year's list. Those hospitals are listed below in alphabetical order by category and state. Click here to see Leapfrog's full 2020 Top Hospitals list.
Children's Hospitals
California
- Children's Hospital of Orange County
- Valley Children's Hospital
Florida
- Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida
- Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
- Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando
Pennsylvania
- UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Texas
- Cook Children's Medical Center
Washington
- Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Network
General Hospitals
California
- Temecula Valley Hospital
Colorado
- Centura Health Castle Rock Adventist Hospital
- Good Samaritan Medical Center
Connecticut
- The William W. Backus Hospital
Florida
- AdventHealth Altamonte Springs
- AdventHealth Apopka
- AdventHealth Kissimmee
- AdventHealth North Pinellas
- AdventHealth Sebring
- AdventHealth Zephyrhills
Kansas
- Kansas Surgery & Recovery Center
Massachusetts
- Holy Family Hospital at Merrimack Valley
Nevada
- Northern Nevada Medical Center
New Jersey
- Bayshore Medical Center
New York
- White Plains Hospital
Pennsylvania
- Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono
South Carolina
- Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge
Rhode Island
- Newport Hospital
Texas
- CHI St. Luke's Health The Woodlands Hospital
- CHI St. Luke's Health Lakeside Hospital
Virginia
- Augusta Health
- Inova Alexandria Hospital
- Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
- Inova Loudoun Hospital
Rural Hospitals
Colorado
- Centura Health-Mercy Regional Medical Center
Florida
- AdventHealth Wauchula
Georgia
- Floyd Polk Medical Center
Hawaii
- North Hawaii Community Hospital
Louisiana
- Our Lady of the Angels Hospital
Maine
- LincolnHealth
- Pen Bay Medical Center
- Stephens Memorial Hospital
- Waldo County General Hospital
Michigan
- ProMedica Bixby Hospital
Nebraska
- Great Plains Health
Oklahoma
- Mercy Hospital Ada
Texas
- Memorial Medical Center-San Augustine
Teaching hospitals
Arkansas
- Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas
California
- Loma Linda University Medical Center East Campus
- University of California Irvine Health
Colorado
- Centura Health-Penrose Hospital
- Centura Health-St. Francis Medical Center
- Longmont United Hospital
Connecticut
- MidState Medical Center
Florida
- AdventHealth East Orlando
- AdventHealth Orlando
- AdventHealth Tampa
- AdventHealth Winter Park
- Healthpark Medical Center
- Lee Memorial Hospital
- Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies
Georgia
- University Hospital
Illinois
- Rush University Medical Center
Massachusetts
- Berkshire Medical Center
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Michigan
- Covenant Medical Center Harrison Campus
Missouri
- Mercy Hospital St. Louis
Nevada
- Henderson Hospital
New Jersey
- Saint Barnabas Medical Center
New Mexico
- Heart Hospital of New Mexico
- Lovelace Medical Center-Downtown
New York
- NYU Winthrop Hospital
North Carolina
- Rex Hospital Inc.
Ohio
- Summa Health, Barberton Campus
Pennsylvania
- Lancaster General Hospital
- WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital
- WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
Tennessee
- Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital
Texas
- Ascension Seton Hays
- Ascension Seton Northwest
- UT Health North Campus Tyler
Virginia
- Carilion New River Valley Medical Center
- Winchester Medical Center
Washington
- Virginia Mason Medical Center
Leapfrog recognizes Pandemic Hero of the Year
In addition to its Top Hospitals list, Leapfrog on Monday announced its new "Pandemic Heroes Award." Leapfrog said the award recognizes "the heroes [who] have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to patient safety during the Covid-19 crisis." An interdisciplinary committee of Leapfrog leaders chose the honorees.
The committee chose Sergio Alvarez, an RN at Coral Gables Hospital in Miami, as the top honoree in the "individual heroes" category. According to Leapfrog, Alvarez "demonstrated a steadfast willingness to put the best interests and welfare of others above his own" by providing patients and families with his personal cell phone number, explaining test results carefully, and helping to "minimize fear and uncertainty."
The committee chose Englewood Health in Englewood, New Jersey, as the top honoree in the "teams of heroes" category. According to Leapfrog, the committee selected Englewood because of its "myriad approaches to communicating the importance of social distancing, partnering with first responders, making multiple daily calls to the families of patients, and supporting staff needs, including mental health support and financial assistance."
Click here for a full list of other individuals and organizations who received Leapfrog's "Special Recognition for Pandemic Heroism in 2020" (Leapfrog release, 12/8; Leapfrog Top Hospitals methodology, 12/8; Leapfrog list, 12/8).
