This fall, 790 hospitals earned an A grade from The Leapfrog Group as part of its latest update of the Hospital Safety Score, but those top-graded hospitals are not distributed evenly throughout the nation.
California has the most hospitals with an A grade, at 108. North Dakota and Washington, D.C., on the other hand, had no hospitals with A grades.
The following are the 10 states with the most Leapfrog A hospitals:
1. California — 108
2. Florida — 76
3. Illinois — 50
3. Texas — 50
5. Massachusetts — 40
6. Ohio — 36
7. New Jersey — 35
8. Virginia — 33
9. New York — 32
10. Pennsylvania — 25