アメリカの高齢者に絶大な影響力をもつ米国退職者協会（AARP：American Association of Retired Persons)が医療機関評価で定評のあるThe Leapfrog Groupと共同で、全米の病院の安全度を独自に調査。結果を機関紙AARP（2013年4／5月号）に発表した。（医療ジャーナリスト 西村由美子）
http://pubs.aarp.org/aarptm/20130405#pg1
AARPの問題意識は、毎年およそ18万人の高齢者（メディケア受給者）が本来回避可能であったはずの病院による過誤のために亡くなっているという事実。米国厚労省が発表し、大きな反響を呼んでいる数字だ。
AARP-LEAPFROGは各病院の安全確保のための努力を詳細に評価。66の病院を「アメリカでもっとも安全な病院」として発表した。選ばれた66の病院は以下のとおり（病院名のABC順）。
1．Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh)
2. Baystate Medical Center (Springfield, Mass.)
3. Bellevue Hospital Center (New York)
4. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston)
5. Billings Clinic (Billings, Mont)
6. Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)
7. California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco)
8. Central Marine Medical Center (Lewiston, Maine)
9. The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)
10. Cleveland Clinic Florida (Weston, Fla.)
11. Detroit Receiving Hospital/University Health Center (Detroit)
12. Dublin Methodist Hospital (Dublin, Ohio)
13. Englewood Hospital and Medical Center (Englewood, N.J.)
14. Fairview Southdale Hospital (Edina, Minn.)
15. Geisinger Medical Center (Danville, Pa.)
16. Grinnell Regional Medical Center (Grinnell, Iowa)
17. Hackensack University Medical Center (Hackensack, N.J.)
18. Harper-Hutzel Hospital (Detroit)
19. Homestead Hosital (Homestead, Fla.)
20. Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital (La Porte, Ind.)
21. Inova Fair Oakes Hospital (Fairfax, Va.)
22. Inova Loudoun Hospital (Leesburgh, Va.)
23. JFK Medical Center of Atlantis (Atlantis, Fla.)
24. Kaiser Permanente (Multiple locations)
25. Lahey Clinic (Burlington Mass.)
26. Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pa.)
27. Mayo Clinic Hospital (Houston)
28. The Methodist Hospital (Houston)
29. Mills-Peninsula Health Services (Burlingame, Calif.)
30. Monteflore Medical Center (Bronx, N.Y.)
31. MuitiCare Good Samaritan Hospital (Puyallup, Wash.)
32. Northern Westchester Hospital (Mountain View, N.Y.)
33. Northshore University Health-System-Skokie Hospital (Skokie, Ill.)
34. Northwestern memorial Hospital (Chicago)
35. OSF St.Joseph Medical Center (Bloomington, Ill.)
36. The Queen’s Medical Center (Honolulu)
37. Regions Hospital (St. Paul, Minn.)
38. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
39. Sentara CarePlex Hospital (Hampton, Va.)
40. Sentara Leigh Hospital (Norfolk, Va.)
41. Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center (Williamsburg, Va.)
42. Sibley memorial Hospital (Washington D.C.)
43. Skyline Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)
44. Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
45. St. David’s Georgetown Hospital (Georgetown, Texas)
46. St. David’s Medical Center (Austin, Texas)
47. St. Francis Hospital Downtown (Greenville, S.C.)
48. St. Mary’s Hospital of Rochester (Rochester, Minn.)
49. St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital (Indianapolis)
50. Stanford Hospital and Clinics (Stanford, Calif.)
51. Sutter Tracey Community Hospitals (tracey, Calif.)
52. Swedish Medical Center First Hill Campus (Seattle)
53. Takomo Regional hospitals (Greenville, Tenn.)
54. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azie (Azie, Texas)
55. Tufts Medical Center (Boston)
56. University Hospitals Case medical Center (Cleveland)
57. University of California Davis Medical Center (Sacramento, Calif.)
58. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
59. USMD Hospital at Arlington (Arlington, Texas)
60. Valley Hospitals (Ridgewood, N.J.)
62. Vanderbilt University Hospital (Nashville, Tenn.)
63. Vassar Brothers Medical Center (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
64. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston Palm Beach, Fla.)
65. West Palm Hospital (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
66. Wyoming Medical Center (Casper, Wyo.)