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Search South Florida hospital ratings for patient safety, as ranked by Leapfrog

Nonprofit Leapfrog gives A-F grades on patient safety to hospitals nationwide twice a year.
Nonprofit Leapfrog gives A-F grades on patient safety to hospitals nationwide twice a year. McClatchy File

How well of a job does your hospital do at preventing medical errors, accidents and infections? Search the chart below for your hospital’s patient safety grade. A is best and F is worst.

Leapfrog, a watchdog nonprofit that reports on quality and safety in hospitals, didn’t give grades to specialty hospitals, such as children hospitals, surgical centers, critical access hospitals and veteran hospitals.

To read a more detailed report about your hospital’s score, visit hospitalsafetygrade.org/

MORE: Is your South Florida hospital safe for patients?

This story was originally published May 1, 2024 at 4:46 PM.

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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