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61 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT & MEASUREMENT The 64 Leapfrog Straight-A Hospitals By Heather Punke T he Leapfrog Group has been assigning letter grades to hospitals based on their patient safety performance twice a year since spring 2012, and 64 hospitals have earned an A in every update, including the spring 2017 update released in April. at means these 64 straight-A hospitals have earned the highest possible grade 11 times in a row. See a list of the 64 straight-A hospitals, bro- ken down by state, below. Arizona Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix) California Twin Cities Community Hospital (Temple- ton, Calif.) Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center Kaiser Foundation Hospital-West Los Ange- les Kaiser Foundation Hospital-Santa Rosa Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center (San Luis Obispo) Kaiser Permanente Foundation Hospital, Downey Medical Center French Hospital Medical Center (San Luis Obispo) Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Orange Coun- ty-Anaheim Colorado Centura Health-Porter Adventist Hospital (Denver) Rose Medical Center (Denver) Florida Memorial Hospital Miramar Parrish Medical Center (Titusville) Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center (Daytona Beach) Georgia Gordon Hospital (Calhoun) Illinois University of Chicago Medical Center HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital, Breese Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield) Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Rush-Copley Medical Center (Aurora) OSF St. Joseph Medical Center (Blooming- ton) AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center Hoffman Estates Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (Down- ers Grove) West Suburban Medical Center (Oak Park) OSF St. Mary Medical Center (Galesburg) Louisiana Minden Medical Center Massachusetts Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield) Newton-Wellesley Hospital Saint Anne's Hospital (Fall River) Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (Boston) Cape Cod Hospital (Hyannis) Harrington Memorial Hospital (Southbridge) Addison Gilbert Hospital (Gloucester) Beverly Hospital Maine Pen Bay Medical Center (Rockport) Mid Coast Hospital (Brunswick) Inland Hospital (Waterville) St. Mary's Regional Medical Center of Maine (Lewiston) Cary Medical Center (Caribou) Michigan Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital (Commerce Township) University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers Minnesota St. Francis Regional Medical Center (Shako- pee) Mississippi Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle (Columbus) Henry Ford Allegiance Health (Jackson) North Carolina Rex Hospital (Raleigh) New Jersey Jersey City Medical Center Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Saint Barnabas Medical Center (Livingston) Ohio St. John Medical Center (Westlake) Grady Memorial Hospital (Delaware) Dublin Methodist Hospital Texas Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital St. David's Medical Center (Austin) Virginia Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Cen- ter Inova Loudoun Hospital (Leesburg) Sentara Princess Anne Hospital (Virginia Beach) Carilion New River Valley Medical Center (Christiansburg) Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital Sentara Leigh Hospital (Norfolk) Sentara Obici Hospital (Suffolk) Sentara CarePlex Hospital (Hampton) Washington Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle) n