VENICE — The Spring 2025 hospital safety grades from The Leapfrog Group, released Thursday, show that area facilities maintained the status quo since the last grades came out, in November: No grade changed, though several hospitals showed significant improvement in several areas.
And repeated “A” grades qualified two — Sarasota Memorial Hospital-Sarasota and HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital — for a new Leapfrog status: “Straight ‘A'” hospital, for having achieved the top grade for five or more grading periods.
Grades are released twice a year, in the spring and fall…