The University of Chicago Medical Center has been recognized for an unparalleled eighth time as a Top Teaching Hospital by The Leapfrog Group. This prestigious award stands testament to the hospital’s continuing commitment to exceptional patient safety, quality care, and exemplary medical education. This recognition places the University of Chicago Medical Center in an elite cadre of U.S. hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers that uphold the high safety and quality standards that the Leapfrog Group looks for, making it one of the most coveted acknowledgments in the U.S. healthcare sector.
The rigorous selection process demands that hospitals are not only among the top performers in Leapfrog’s bi-annual Hospital Safety Grade survey but also excel in their individual categories. The University of Chicago Medical Center, esteemed as the flagship hospital of the UChicago Medicine health system, celebrated receiving its 28th ‘A’ grade for safety consecutively from The Leapfrog Group in November 2025. Amidst more than 2,400 hospitals reviewed country-wide, the University of Chicago Medical Center has the distinction of being one of the 156 hospitals awarded the Top Hospital recognition.
Other honored institutions encompass 73 teaching hospitals, 56 general hospitals, 16 rural hospitals, and 15 children’s hospitals. The Leapfrog Group, renowned as a national watchdog organization of employers and purchasers, is revered for drafting some of the rigorous standards for healthcare safety and quality. The Top Hospital award is conferred to hospitals that voluntarily disclose their performance via the Leapfrog Hospital
Survey and are among the highest in meeting comprehensive criteria lined out in the Top Hospitals methodology. This includes paramount factors like infection control, maternity care, and prevention of medication errors among others. This significant achievement is proof of University of Chicago Medical Center’s singular focus on uncompromising safety and quality. The award recipients were announced at Leapfrog’s 2025 Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner on December 15, 2025.
Source: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/news/leapfrog-top-teaching-hospital-2026