How Safe Are New Hampshire Hospitals?

Check Your Hospital’s Safety Grade

Twice a year, the Leapfrog Group grades hospitals nationwide based on national performance measures* to produce an A, B, C, D or F letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.

Leapfrog uses their data to rank states on patient safety. As of the Fall of 2025, Leapfrog ranks New Hampshire 14th out of 50 states in patient safety. 

New Hampshire hospital safety grades for Fall 2025

What is the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade?

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade was launched in 2012 to help increase awareness of hospital errors, injuries, accidents and infections.

The Safety Grade includes 32 measures of patient safety, including:

• Infections, such as MRSA, C. diff, infections in the blood during ICU stay or surgical site infections.
• Surgical mistakes, such as objects left behind, death from treatable complications, collapsed lung
• Error prevention practices, such as handwashing, communication about medicines,  ordering medicines through a computer
• Patient safety problems, such as dangerous bed sores, patient falls, air or gas bubble in the blood
• Doctor, nurse and hospital staffing, such as enough qualified nurses, specially trained doctors for ICU patients, responsiveness of hospital staff...

How Safe Is Your Hospital?

Go to www.hospitalsafetygrade.org to search by hospital or state to view specific hospital scores

* National performance measures include those from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey and Health Information Technology Supplement.

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What Are the Top Medical Errors in New Hampshire Hospitals?

Tracking medical errors and patient harms in New Hampshire acute care hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers

New Hampshire hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), (with the exception of New Hampshire Hospital) are required by law to report all Serious Reportable Events (SREs), as defined by the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Serious Reportable Events in Health-2011 Update: A Consensus Report. 

The NQF has identified 29 Serious Reportable Events, also called “never events,” which are the basis for state mandatory reporting systems intended to identify and measure events that are considered preventable and of interest to the public and other stakeholders. Identifying and tracking these medical errors and patient harms is an important step in improving patient safety.

 

New Hampshire Serious Reportable Events 2010-2023

According to the NH report based on 2023 data, the increase in adverse events reported from previous years is attributed in part to the ongoing collaboration between the New Hampshire Healthcare Quality and Safety Commission, working to reinforce the importance of reporting and indirectly promote a safe and strong reporting culture by hospitals and ASCs. The report further cautions, that consumers should not "compare the quality of care and safety of the facilities by the number or types of SRE reported. Consumers need to look at all factors such as size of the facility, scope, and complexities of the procedures as well as the number of procedures performed at the facility."

According to the report, the three most common hospital errors in New Hampshire account for 83 percent of all SREs documented. 

• Falls - 25%  
• Pressure Injuries - 41%
• Surgical Events - 17%

Download the full report which details the specific never events at each NH hospital and surgery center. 

We will update you with new data as it becomes available. 

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