These are the best hospitals in Massachusetts, according to the spring 2021 Leapfrog safety report Updated 9:39 AM; Healthcare providers in Massachusetts, take a bow. Hospitals in Massachusetts were ranked first in the nation in Leapfrog’s Spring 2021 hospital safety report. Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization focused on healthcare safety, has issued the report twice a year since spring 2012. Over the past nine years, three hospitals in Massachusetts have received straight A’s: Beverly Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, and Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River. The nonprofit assigns letter grades to over 2,600 hospitals nationwide based on more than two dozen performance measures ranging from “responsiveness of hospital staff” to surgical outcomes and other measures of patient care.