These are safest hospitals in Sacramento area in 2025. Did yours make the list?
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- A dozen Sacramento-area hospitals earned 'A' grades for patient safety
- UC Davis Medical Center received a 'D' in The Leapfrog Group's spring 2025 report
- The nonprofit looked at infections and other safety issues to score medical centers
The Sacramento region is home to a dozen of the safest hospitals in the nation, according to The Leapfrog Group.
The nonprofit organization, which studies patient safety and care, issues Hospital Safety Grade reports twice a year for nearly 3,000 general hospitals in the United States.
The Leapfrog Group’s latest report, released May 1 and searchable as an online database, grades health care facilities across the nation on a scale of A to F — with A being the highest grade and F the lowest.
Grades are based on factors including rates of preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections, as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent them.
Here’s how local hospitals and medical centers scored:
What are the safest hospitals in the Sacramento region?
Out of the 20 local hospitals surveyed in The Leapfrog Group’s latest report, a total of 12 received “A” grades for patient safety.
The hospitals earned high marks for everything from efforts to prevent errors, infections and surgical problems to effective leadership, responsive staff and good communication between doctors, the spring 2025 report showed.
According to The Leapfrog Group, here’s which Sacramento-area hospitals got the best overall scores for their work to protect patients:
- Sutter Medical Center, 2825 Capitol Ave., Sacramento
- Mercy General Hospital, 4001 J St., Sacramento
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South Sacramento, 6600 Bruceville Road, South Sacramento
- Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, 7500 Hospital Drive, Sacramento
- Mercy San Juan Medical Center, 6501 Coyle Ave., Carmichael
- Sutter Davis Hospital, 2000 Sutter Place, Davis
- Woodland Memorial Hospital, 1325 Cottonwood St., Woodland
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Roseville, 1600 Eureka Road, Roseville
- Sutter Roseville Medical Center, 1 Medical Plaza Drive, Roseville
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Vacaville, 1 Quality Drive, Vacaville
- Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital, 11815 Education St., Auburn
- Marshall Medical Center, 1100 Marshall Way, Placerville
The Leapfrog Group previously awarded A grades to five of the hospitals in its fall 2024 patient safety report, The Sacramento Bee reported at the time.
Which local medical center got a ‘D’ grade for patient safety?
UC Davis Medical Center, 2315 Stockton Blvd. in Sacramento, scored the lowest grade of any Sacramento-area hospital in The Leapfrog Group’s latest report.
The hospital received a “D” for patient safety in spring 2025.
According to The Leapfrog Group, the hospital needed better practices in place to prevent infections, falls and other safety problems.
UC Davis Medical Center also ranked “worse than average” in terms of practices to prevent errors, including handwashing and safely administering medication, the spring 2025 report said.
The hospital also earned a D grade in The Leapfrog Group’s fall 2024 report.
UC Davis Health, which operates UC Davis Medical Center and other local care facilities, issued a statement in response to The Leapgrog Group’s latest report.
“UC Davis Medical Center is proud to be consistently recognized as one of the best hospitals in America and ranked No. 1 in Sacramento by influential organizations and publications such as U.S. News and World Report,” UC Davis Health said in the statement, emailed Tuesday, July 15. “There are dozens of ranking reports compiled by third-party groups and we don’t participate in all of them, including the Leapfrog safety survey.”
UC Davis Health said that the spring 2025 report is “not reflective of all of our data, which shows our true quality and the work we do for patients.”
How safe are other area hospitals?
A total of six hospitals in the Sacramento region received “B” safety grades in The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2025 report:
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Sacramento, 2025 Morse Ave., Sacramento
- Mercy Hospital of Folsom, 1650 Creekside Drive, Folsom
- NorthBay VacaValley Hospital, 1000 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville
- 60th Medical Group, Travis Air Force Base, 101 Bodin Circle, Travis
- NorthBay Medical Center, 1200 B. Gale Wilson Blvd., Fairfield
- Adventist Health and Rideout, 726 Fourth St., Marysville
Just one Sacramento-area medical center got a “C” grade for patient safety in The Leapfrog Group’s latest report:
- Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, 975 South Fairmont Ave., Lodi
How did The Leapfrog Group come up with safety grades?
The Leapfrog Group assigns hospitals a grade from A to F based on their “overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.”
These grades are calculated using up to 30 national performance measures sourced from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Leapfrog Hospital Survey and other data.
Under the guidance of a panel of patient safety experts, The Leapfrog Group selected about two dozen evidence-based measures, grouped into five key categories, to create its scoring methodology.
Those categories are:
- Infections
- Problems with surgery
- Safety problems
- Practices to prevent errors
- Doctors, nurses and hospital staff
This story was originally published July 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM.
