Where are Leapfrog’s 5 ‘F’ hospitals? 

Five U.S. hospitals have received an “F” safety grade from The Leapfrog Group for spring 2026. 

Leapfrog calculates hospital safety grades using up to 22 CMS patient safety measures, data from the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and supplemental imputation. Read more about Leapfrog’s methodology here.

For spring 2026, safety grades were not assigned to the 450 hospitals that did not participate in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey in 2024 or 2025. 

The move comes after five Palm Beach (Fla.) Health Network hospitals — part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare — filed a lawsuit against Leapfrog after receiving “F” and “D” safety grades. In March, a federal judge ruled the hospitals were deliberately punished with artificially low scores for not participating in the voluntary Leapfrog Hospital Survey. Under the ruling, Leapfrog was required to withdraw the five hospitals’ safety grades for fall 2024, spring 2025 and fall 2025 from its websites and send corrective disclosures to all entities that paid to license those grades. 

“Although the court ruling only applied to five hospitals, Leapfrog does not apply programmatic changes to individual hospitals because the hospital safety grade is a national program. We expect to resume full grading in fall 2026,” Leapfrog said in a May 6 news release.

Hospitals have pushed back on Leapfrog’s safety grades for years, arguing the methodology is flawed and unfairly penalizes hospitals that do not participate. Two hospitals filed similar lawsuits in 2017 and 2019, though the cases were eventually dismissed.

In previous years, the “F” list has included more than a dozen hospitals.

Here is the most recent list:

Illinois 

Roseland Community Hospital (Chicago)

Mississippi 

South Central Regional Medical Center (Laurel)

West Virginia

CAMC Teays Valley Hospital (Hurricane)

Weirton Medical Center 

WVU Fairmont Medical Center 

See the list of Leapfrog’s 11 “A” hospitals here. 

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