These are North Texas’ most unsafe hospitals for spring 2025, says list. See the ratings
A new hospital safety report highlights how good North Texas hospitals are at protecting patients from preventable harm.
The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that tracks patient safety nationwide, just released its Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades. The results aren’t exactly comforting for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Twenty-four hospitals in the North Texas region received a “C,” and five were given a “D” in the list.
The good news? No D-FW hospitals received a failing “F” grade.
Here’s what you should know.
How did experts determine hospital safety?
Leapfrog assigns hospitals a letter grade from A to F twice a year based on their ability to prevent medical mistakes, injuries, infections and other harm. (You can find the D-FW results for fall of 2024 here.)
The grades are based on up to 30 performance measures collected from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and other supplemental sources.
Together, those metrics create a single safety score. The goal? To help patients make more informed decisions about where to seek care.
According to Leapfrog, preventable medical errors and complications harm one in four hospital patients and contribute to up to 250,000 deaths annually.
How safe are North Texas hospitals?
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, 24 hospitals in Leapfrog’s study received a “C” grade, meaning they fall in the middle range of safety performance. Five others received a “D,” putting them closer to the bottom.
Even with these lower grades, some hospitals with “C” rankings, such as Baylor University Medical Center, Medical City Dallas, and Texas Health Southwest Fort Worth, were named by Newsweek as among the best in Texas.
What are the safest hospitals in North Texas?
The following hospitals in North Texas received “A” grades for safety in Leapfrog’s study. Medical City Decatur was not graded.
- Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center - Fort Worth
- Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial - Frisco
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Grapevine
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Irving
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Plano
- Medical City Alliance, Fort Worth
- Medical City Denton
- Medical City Weatherford
- Methodist Dallas Medical Center
- Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
- Methodist Midlothian Medical Center
- Texas Health Mansfield
- UT Southwestern’s William. P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, Dallas
- UT Southwestern’s Zale Lipshy Pavilion, Dallas
The following hospitals received “B” grades for safety:
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Waxahachie
- Dallas Medical Center
- Medical City Lewisville
- Methodist Charlton Medical Center
- Texas Health Huguley Hospital
What are the most unsafe hospitals in North Texas?
The following hospitals received “C” grades for safety:
C-Grade Hospitals:
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco
- Baylor University Medical Center – Dallas
- Carrollton Regional Medical Center
- John Peter Smith Hospital
- Lake Granbury Medical Center
- Medical City Arlington
- Medical City Dallas
- Medical City Fort Worth
- Medical City Frisco
- Medical City Las Colinas
- Medical City North Hills
- Medical City Plano
- Methodist Southlake Medical Center
- Texas Health Allen
- Texas Health Alliance
- Texas Health Azle
- Texas Health Denton
- Texas Health Flower Mound
- Texas Health Fort Worth
- Texas Health Frisco
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hurst-Euless-Bedford
- Texas Health Plano
- Texas Health Rockwall
- Texas Health Southwest Fort Worth
The following hospitals received a “D” grade, the lowest in the region:
D-Grade Hospitals:
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Sunnyvale
- Parkland Health, Dallas
- Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
- White Rock Medical Center, Dallas
You can search safety ratings for your local hospital at www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.
