Overview
- Leapfrog’s biannual grades released Wednesday report sharp drops in hospital infections since fall 2022, including a 50% decline in central line bloodstream infections and a 45% decline in catheter-associated UTIs.
- Hospitals expanded use of medication-safety technology by 2025, with computerized order entry in 90% of facilities and bar-code medication scanning in 93%.
- After a March federal ruling that a 2024 scoring change unfairly penalized hospitals that skipped Leapfrog’s survey, the group withheld grades for about 450 nonparticipating hospitals in the spring update.
- Leapfrog is appealing the decision and convening its National Expert Panel to review the methodology, and it says full grading could return in fall 2026.
- Performance remains uneven, with 11 hospitals earning 29 straight A grades since 2012 and NYU Langone reaching 12 consecutive A grades across its Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island hospitals.