Cal Hospital Compare released its 5th Patient Safety Honor Roll in May 2024 recognizing 72 hospitals with high safety profiles in comparison to other California hospitals.
The Patient Safety Honor Roll uses 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 this year’s Patient Safety Honor Roll 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).
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
- Recipients of the 2023 Patient Safety Honor Roll may download their hospital’s award certificate here.
2022 Resources:
- Fact Sheet w List of Honor Roll Hospitals_Patient Safety Honor Roll_2022
- Methodology Primer_Patient Safety Honor Roll_2022
- Recipients of the 2022 Patient Safety Honor Roll may download their hospital’s award certificate here.
