Beginning in 2026, Cal Hospital Compare will no longer publish the Patient Safety Honor Roll. We are grateful to the hospitals and healthcare leaders who have participated in and contributed to this work over the years. As we look ahead, we remain committed to providing meaningful, actionable information about hospital quality and performance through our other reporting initiatives.
The Patient Safety Honor Roll used objective, publicly available patient safety measures to evaluate hospitals across a variety of domains including hospital acquired infections, adverse patient safety events, sepsis management, patient experience, and Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. Developing the criteria to identify high performing hospitals was an 18-month, multi-stakeholder process of rigorously evaluating existing national patient safety scoring systems and adapting them for the available measures and unique features of California hospitals.
While the Patient Safety Honor Roll is an excellent indicator of patient safety, Cal Hospital Compare (CHC) appreciates that measurement of patient safety is complex and there is no single validated method for measuring the overall safety of care provided in a given health care setting. Therefore, CHC recognizes hospitals excluded from past Patient Safety Honor Rolls are still capable of providing high quality care to patients. Bright spots in performance can occur in any area of a hospital and bright spots can exist even within hospitals with comparatively lower quality (example bright spots may include orthopedic surgery, maternity services, and cancer care).
2025 Resources:
- Fact Sheet w List of Honor Roll Hospitals_Patient Safety Honor Roll_CHC_2025
- Methodology Primer_Patient Safety Honor Roll_CHC_2025
2024 Resources:
- Fact Sheet w List of Honor Roll Hospitals_Patient Safety Honor Roll_CHC_2024
- Methodology Primer_Patient Safety Honor Roll_CHC_2024
2023 Resources:
- Fact Sheet w List of Honor Roll Hospitals_Patient Safety Honor Roll_CHC_2023
- Methodology Primer_Patient Safety Honor Roll_CHC_2023
2022 Resources:
- Fact Sheet w List of Honor Roll Hospitals_Patient Safety Honor Roll_2022
- Methodology Primer_Patient Safety Honor Roll_2022
