{"id":140421,"date":"2025-11-18T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/140421\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:12:08","slug":"8-hospitals-in-marin-mendocino-napa-solano-and-sonoma-counties-scored-straight-as-in-patient-safety-in-fall-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/140421\/","title":{"rendered":"8 hospitals in Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties scored straight A’s in patient safety in fall 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight North Bay hospitals received an \u201cA\u201d for patient safety in the Leapfrog Group\u2019s fall Hospital Safety Grades<\/a> released Thursday, with three local facilities maintaining perfect scores over the past five grading periods.<\/p>\n

Novato Community Hospital, Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital and Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center earned \u201cStraight A\u201d recognition for the past five cycles (fall 2023\u2013fall 2025), while Kaiser San Rafael also has posted flawless \u201cA\u201d grades going back as early as 2022.<\/p>\n

Other North Bay hospitals achieving an \u201cA\u201d this round include Adventist Health Ukiah Valley, Providence Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base adjoining Fairfield, Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center, Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo and Petaluma Valley Hospital.<\/p>\n

Of the 18 graded hospitals in Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties, the eight \u201cA\u201d grades represent a strong regional showing. Petaluma Valley Hospital marked one of the biggest improvements, leaping from consistent \u201cC\u201d and \u201cD\u201d grades to an \u201cA.\u201d Providence Queen of the Valley also climbed from a string of \u201cC\u201ds to an \u201cA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all local facilities fared as well. MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae dropped to a \u201cC,\u201d and Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa fell from five consecutive \u201cA\u201ds to a \u201cB.\u201d<\/p>\n

North Bay hospitals not graded were in Lake and Mendocino counties: St. Helena Hospital Clearlake, Sutter Lakeside Hospital, Adventist Health Howard Memorial in Willits and Adventist Health Mendocino Coast in Fort Bragg.<\/p>\n

The independent Leapfrog grades, issued twice yearly, are the nation\u2019s only ratings focused exclusively on preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections \u2014 harm that affects one in four hospital patients and contributes to as many as 250,000 deaths annually.<\/p>\n

Nationally, Leapfrog noted that 94% of \u201cA\u201d hospitals and 95% of the 358 \u201cStraight A\u201d hospitals belong to larger health systems. Kaiser Permanente (27 \u201cA\u201d hospitals), Sutter Health (15), AdventistHealth (29), and Prime Healthcare (24) all ranked among the top 10 systems for total \u201cA\u201d and \u201cStraight A\u201d facilities. Utah again led states with the highest percentage of \u201cA\u201d hospitals.<\/p>\n

Full grades for all hospitals are available at hospitalsafetygrade.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

North Bay hospital grades<\/p>\n

Click on the links below to learn what was behind the scores.<\/p>\n

Marin County<\/p>\n

Novato Community Hospital<\/a>, 180 Rowland Way, Novato, CA 94945-5009. Grade: A (\u201cStraight A\u201d for 5 grades; previous 5 grades: A, A, A, A, B).<\/p>\n

Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center<\/a>, 99 Montecillo Road, San Rafael, CA 94903-5114. Grade: A (\u201cStraight A\u201d for 5 grades; previous 5 grades: A, A, A, A, A).<\/p>\n

MarinHealth Medical Center<\/a>, 250 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, CA 94904-1784. Grade: C (previous 5 grades: B, A, B, A, B).<\/p>\n

Mendocino County<\/p>\n

Adventist Health Ukiah Valley<\/a>, 275 Hospital Drive, Ukiah, CA 95482-4531. Grade: A (previous 5 grades: A, A, A, B, C).<\/p>\n

Napa County<\/p>\n

Adventist Health St. Helena<\/a>, 10 Woodland Road, St. Helena, CA 94574-9554. Grade: B (previous 5 grades: C, B, C, C, A).<\/p>\n

Providence Queen of the Valley Medical Center<\/a>, 1000 Trancas St., Napa, CA 94558-2906. Grade: A (previous 5 grades: A, B, C, C, C).<\/p>\n

Solano County<\/p>\n

David Grant USAF Medical Center (60th Medical Group)<\/a>, Travis Air Force Base, 101 Bodin Circle, Fairfield, CA 94535-1801. Grade: A (previous 5 grades: B, B, B, not graded, not graded).<\/p>\n

Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center<\/a>, 1 Quality Drive, Vacaville, CA 95688-9494. Grade: A (previous 5 grades: A, B, B, B, A).<\/p>\n

Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center<\/a>, 975 Sereno Drive, Vallejo, CA 94589-2441. Grade: B (previous 5 grades: B, B, B, A, A).<\/p>\n

NorthBay Medical Center<\/a>, 1200 B. Gale Wilson Blvd., Fairfield, CA 94533-3552. Grade: C (previous 5 grades: B, A, A, B, B).<\/p>\n

NorthBay VacaValley Hospital<\/a>, 1000 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687. Grade: C (previous 5 grades: B, A, A, B, B).<\/p>\n

Sutter Solano Medical Center<\/a>, 300 Hospital Drive, Vallejo, CA 94589-2517. Grade: A (previous 5 grades: A, A, C, B, B).<\/p>\n

Sonoma County<\/p>\n

Sonoma Valley Hospital<\/a>, 347 Andrieux St., Sonoma, CA 95476-6811. Grade: C (previous 5 grades: C, C, B, B, B).<\/p>\n

Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital<\/a>, 1165 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95405-4897. Grade: B (previous 5 grades: B, B, C, C, C).<\/p>\n

Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center<\/a>, 401 Bicentennial Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95403-2149. Grade: B (previous 5 grades: A, A, A, A, A).<\/p>\n

Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital<\/a>, 30 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95403. Grade: A (\u201cStraight A\u2019s\u201d for 5 grades; previous 5 grades: A, A, A, A, B).<\/p>\n

Petaluma Valley Hospital<\/a>, 400 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma, CA 94954-2369. Grade: A (previous 5 grades: C, C, D, D, C).<\/p>\n

Source: Leapfrog Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight North Bay hospitals received an \u201cA\u201d for patient safety in the Leapfrog Group\u2019s fall Hospital Safety Grades…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,1541,521,85,46,86889,9785,48442,86890,79353,86891,44138],"class_list":["post-140421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-leapfrog-group","tag-marin-county","tag-mendocino-county","tag-napa-county","tag-patient-safety","tag-solano-county","tag-sonoma-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}