Leapfrog Awards Mount Sinai South Nassau an ‘A’ for Hospital Patient Safety

Leapfrog Awards Mount Sinai South Nassau an 'A' for Hospital Patient Safety

Mount Sinai South Nassau has earned an A grade for patient safety in the elite national patient safety ratings system administered by The Leapfrog Group and developed under the guidance of the nation's leading patient safety experts. Leapfrog assigns an A, B, C, D, or F grade to general hospitals in the nation, using evidence-based measures of patient safety focused exclusively on errors, accidents, injuries, and infections.

Mount Sinai South Nassau, along with Mount Sinai Queens, is one of 11 hospitals in New York and 917 nationwide to receive an A for the 2026 spring cycle of the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. Mount Sinai South Nassau is also a recipient of the 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades and was named to its 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention Award for a third consecutive year.

Considered the gold standard for patient safety, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program focused on preventable medical errors, infections, and injuries that claim the lives of more than 500 patients each day in the United States. The program is peer-reviewed, fully transparent, and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually, in the fall and spring, and are designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay.

"Our high standards for patient safety and a rigorous performance-improvement program are paramount to Mount Sinai South Nassau's nearly 100-year tradition of excellence in the delivery of patient-centered health care," said Adhi Sharma, MD, President of Mount Sinai South Nassau. "We remain committed to providing patients with the safe, high-quality health care that they deserve and need."

Founded in 2000, The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization driving a movement for giant leaps for patient safety. The group's Hospital Safety Score analyzes at least 30 measures of publicly available Centers for Medicare and Medicaid hospital safety data to produce a single A, B, C, D, or F score, which represents a hospital's overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm. More than 3,000 U.S. general hospitals were evaluated this cycle.

The Hospital Safety Score's website, www.hospitalsafetygrade.org, provides an analysis of the data and methodology used in determining grades.

Patients can also compare each hospital's past safety performance with its current grade on the website, helping them to identify local hospitals with strong patient safety track records and consistent improvement. To view Mount Sinai South Nassau's score and find consumer-friendly tips for patients and loved ones visiting the hospital, visit hospitalsafetygrade.org.

Additional quality and safety awards earned by Mount Sinai South Nassau include 10 U.S. News & World Report "High Performing" ratings for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colon cancer surgery, diabetes, heart attack, heart failure, hip fracture, kidney failure, pneumonia, maternity, and leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma.

About Mount Sinai South Nassau
The Long Island flagship hospital of the Mount Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai South Nassau is designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for outstanding nursing care. Mount Sinai South Nassau is one of the region's largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,500 employees. Located in Oceanside, New York, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health, and emergency services and operates the only Trauma Center on the South Shore of Nassau County, along with Long Island's only free-standing Emergency Department in Long Beach.

In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, Mount Sinai South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, and offers Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies. Mount Sinai South Nassau operates the only Trauma Center on the South Shore of Nassau County verified by the American College of Surgeons as well as Long Island's only free-standing, 9-1-1 receiving Emergency Department in Long Beach. Mount Sinai South Nassau also is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons; is an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program; and an Infectious Diseases Society of America Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence.
For more information, go to www.mountsinai.org/southnassau.