These are North Texas’ most unsafe hospitals in fall 2025, list says. See ratings
CORRECTION: This story has been corrected and updated to reflect which North Texas hospitals declined to be included in Leapfrog’s rating.
The latest round of one group’s hospital safety grades are in for North Texas.
The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit that tracks hospital safety twice a year, just released its Fall 2025 report, grading hospitals across the country on how well they protect patients from medical errors, infections and accidents.
While some hospitals kept their top scores from the spring, some saw their grades slip.
Here’s what to know.
How are hospital safety grades determined?
Leapfrog assigns each hospital a letter grade from A to F based on more than 20 measures of patient safety.
Those include infection rates, communication with staff, error prevention and outcomes like falls and surgical mistakes.
The grades are updated twice a year, in spring and fall, and are meant to give patients an easy way to compare how safely hospitals operate.
How did North Texas hospitals perform this fall?
This fall’s grades show a wide range of results across Dallas-Fort Worth hospitals.
Several hospitals maintained their A grades from previous cycles, while others slipped to Bs or Cs.
What are the safest hospitals in North Texas?
The following hospitals in North Texas received “A” grades for safety in Leapfrog’s study.
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Centennial
- Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Grapevine
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Irving
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – McKinney
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Plano
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Lake Pointe
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Waxahachie
- Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital – Dallas
- Medical City Alliance – Fort Worth
- Medical City Denton
- Medical City Weatherford
- Methodist Richardson Medical Center
- Methodist Southlake Medical Center
- Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
- Texas Health Mansfield
- UT Southwestern William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital – Dallas
The following hospitals received “B” grades for safety:
- Dallas Medical Center
- Dallas Regional Medical Center
- Medical City Frisco
- Medical City Mckinney
- Methodist Charlton Medical Center
- Methodist Dallas Medical Center
- Methodist Midlothian Medical Center
- Texas Health Huguley Hospital
What are the most unsafe hospitals in North Texas?
The following hospitals received “C” grades for safety, according to Leapfrog:
C-Grade Hospitals:
- Baylor University Medical Center – Dallas
- Carrollton Regional Medical Center
- John Peter Smith Hospital – Fort Worth
- Medical Center Sachse
- Medical City Arlington
- Medical City Dallas
- Medical City Fort Worth
- Medical City Las Colinas
- Medical City Lewisville
- Medical City North Hills
- Medical City Plano
- Texas Health Cleburne
- Texas Health Flower Mound
- White Rock Medical Center – Dallas
Some North Texas hospitals declined to participate in Leapfrog’s survey. They are listed below:
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Sunnyvale
- Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Frisco
- Parkland Health Hospital - Dallas
- Texas Health Southwest Fort Worth
- Texas Health Plano
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
- Texas Health Kaufman
- Texas Health Hospital Rockwall
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford
- Texas Health Frisco
- Texas Health Fort Worth
- Texas Health Flower Mound
- Texas Health Denton
- Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital
- Texas Health Alliance
- Texas Health Allen
- USMD Hospital at Arlington
You can search safety ratings for your local hospital at www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.
This story was originally published November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM.
