Sutter Hospitals honored by Leapfrog for Safe Patient Care
Sutter Delta Medical Center earns an “A” – the only hospital in Contra Costa County to do so
By Monique Binkley Smith, Manager, Media Relations, Sutter Health
Fifteen Sutter hospitals earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit focused on patient safety. This recognition is awarded to hospitals for their exceptional performance in patient safety and quality of care.
“This achievement reflects our unwavering commitment to patient safety and quality care,” said Dr. William Isenberg, chief medical and quality officer at Sutter Health. “Earning an ‘A’ grade is a testament to the dedication of our teams and their focus on delivering the safest possible care for our communities. This recognition reflects the trust our patients place in us and our shared commitment to creating safer, healthier neighborhoods across California.”
Hospitals that did not receive an “A” grade have established workplans to improve performance in the next evaluation cycle, drawing on best practices from Sutter hospitals that have consistently earned “A” grades.
Locally, Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch earned an “A” grade for safe patient care –the only hospital in Contra Costa County to do so.
“Earning an ‘A’ from The Leapfrog Group is a tremendous honor for Sutter Delta Medical Center — and even more meaningful because we are the only hospital in Contra Costa County to achieve this distinction for Fall 2025,” said Trevor Brand, CEO. “This recognition reflects the relentless dedication of our entire team to put patient safety at the heart of every decision and every interaction. Our community trusts us with their health, and we embrace that responsibility with a commitment to excellence today and a vision for even safer, higher-quality care tomorrow.”
Commitment to Safety
As a high-reliability organization, Sutter promotes a culture of safety in which everyone is empowered to speak up about potential safety concerns. Being high-reliability is more than a process — it’s a promise to make care safer and more consistent for every patient, every time. Efforts around this work include:
- The launch of Sutter Safe Care in 2018. The program kicked off Sutter’s journey to becoming a high-reliability organization, with comprehensive training of over 65,000 leaders, physicians, advanced practice clinicians and staff.
- Targeted training to onboard new leaders, employees and physicians, to ensure everyone adopts Sutter Safe Care’s high-reliability behaviors and key practices.
- A reliability coach program empowering frontline staff to support their peers with high-reliability behaviors. Currently, there are over 1,100 frontline reliability coaches across Sutter Health, and participation in the program continues to grow, year over year.
Leapfrog assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” grade to general hospitals across the country based on more than 30 measures of errors, accidents, injuries and infections as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent them.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade stands as the only hospital ratings program focused solely on preventable medical errors, infections and injuries. The program is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually, in the fall and spring.
To explore full grade details, visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org.
Sutter hospital campuses earning an “A” grade include:
- Sutter Delta Medical Center (improved from “B” in Spring)
- Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center – Summit Campus
- Sutter Amador Hospital
- Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital
- Sutter’s CPMC – Mission Bernal Campus
- Sutter Davis Hospital
- Sutter’s Eden Medical Center
- Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento
- Sutter’s Memorial Hospital Los Banos
- Sutter’s Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
- Sutter’s Novato Community Hospital
- Sutter Roseville Medical Center
- Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital
- Sutter Solano Medical Center
- Sutter Tracy Community Hospital
Sutter hospital campuses earning a “B” grade include:
- Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center – Alta Bates Campus
- Sutter’s CPMC – Van Ness Campus
- Sutter Coast Hospital
- Sutter’s Memorial Medical Center
Sutter hospital campuses earning a “C” grade include:
- Sutter’s CPMC – Davies Campus
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