These are the most unsafe hospitals in Mississippi, new report shows. Is yours listed?
A majority of Mississippi hospitals are apt to keep patients safe and healthy while in the space — but some need improvement, a new report finds.
The Magnolia State ties with Montana at 33rd overall among states with the safest hospitals, according to a November ranking by the Leapfrog Group, a health care watchdog organization.
The recent analysis gives hospitals across the country a letter grade between A and F depending on how well they protect patients from medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections, experts said.
Here’s which hospitals in Mississippi are the least and most safe.
Which MS hospitals are the least safe?
Less than half of Mississippi hospitals are considered unsafe, receiving a C or lower, according to the report. Out of the 36 hospitals graded, 12 received C grades and two received D grades. Leapfrog did not give any hospital in the state an F grade; two hospitals were not graded.
These are the Mississippi hospitals that scored a C or lower, according to Leapfrog’s report:
C grades
- Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center
- Baptist Memorial Hospital DeSoto
- Biloxi HMA, LLC dba Memorial Hospital Biloxi
- George Regional Hospital
- King’s Daughters Medical Center
- Merit Health Natchez
- Merit Health Wesley
- Singing River Health System dba Pascagoula Hospital
- Singing River Ocean Springs
- Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- University of Mississippi Medical Center Grenada
D grades
- Mississippi Baptist Medical Center
- South Central Regional Medical Center
Which MS hospitals are the safest?
Eight Mississippi hospitals earned A-grades, and 14 earned Bs, according to the report.
Here are the safest hospitals in the state, according to Leapfrog’s report:
A grades
- Baptist Memorial Hospital of Union County
- Methodist Olive Branch Hospital
- North Mississippi Medical Center Gilmore-Amory
- Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi
- Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle
- Ochsner Medical Center Hancock
- Singing River Gulfport
- UMMC Madison
B grades
- Baptist Memorial Hospital - Booneville
- Bolivar Medical Center
- Delta Health System - The Medical Center
- Forrest General Hospital
- Magnolia Regional Health Center
- Memorial Health System
- Merit Health Central
- Merit Health River Oaks
- Merit Health River Region
- North Mississippi Medical Center - Tupelo
- North Mississippi Medical Center - West Point
- OCH Regional Medical Center
- Ochsner Rush Medical Center
- St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital
How did experts determine hospital safety?
The Leapfrog Group’s 2025 hospital safety grades were determined by safety experts who used “public, peer-reviewed methodology” under the guidance of a national panel of patient safety experts, the organization said in a Nov. 13 news release.
The ratings focused on “accidents, errors, injuries and infections that harm or kill patients in hospitals,” according to the release.
Which health systems have the most A-graded hospitals?
These are the health systems with the most amount of A-graded hospitals, according to the report:
- HCA Healthcare: 51
- CommonSpirit Health: 49
- AdventHealth: 29
- Kaiser Permanente:27
- AdvocateHealth: 24
- Prime Healthcare Services: 24
- Defense Health Agency: 18
- Lifepoint Health: 16
- Northwell Health: 15
- Sutter Health: 15
Which states have the most A-graded hospitals?
The top five states with the most A-graded hospitals are the following, according to the report:
- Utah
- Virginia
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- North Carolina
Four states — Iowa, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming — don’t have any A-graded hospitals, according to the report.
