Vizient honored three Baptist Memorial hospitals as 2025 Top Performers for quality patient care at the Vizient Connections Summit in Las Vegas, and the Leapfrog Group recently recognized five Baptist Memorial hospitals with an “A” Hospital Safety Grade for fall 2025, highlighting the hospitals’ achievements in protecting patients from harm in the hospital.
Vizient Recognizes Three Baptist Memorial Hospitals as 2025 Top Performers
Vizient presented Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi with the 2025 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award for being a Top Performer in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort. Vizient also recognized Baptist Memorial Hospital-Booneville and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden as Top Performers in the small community hospital cohort.
The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award honors participating health care organizations in seven cohorts through the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study, which measures performance on the quality of patient care in six domains: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and variation in care.
The study factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance data from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network.
Five Baptist Memorial Hospitals Earn “A” Hospital Safety Grades From Leapfrog
Leapfrog awarded “A” grades for spring 2025 to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County for the sixth time in a row, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City for the fifth consecutive time and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County for the 15th time in a row. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle and Baptist North Mississippi also earned an “A.”
Leapfrog assigns letter grades from A to F to general hospitals nationwide based on more than 30 measures of patient safety. The group updates grades twice a year — in the spring and fall.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only ratings program for hospitals that’s based exclusively on hospital prevention of medical errors and harm to patients. The grading system is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public.
To view full grades, visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org.
