Oviedo Medical Center earns top safety, quality honors again
Oviedo Medical Center added a sixth straight Leapfrog A and a Healthgrades safety award, giving Seminole County a local hospital with national safety marks.
Oviedo Medical Center earned its sixth consecutive A Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group and a 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades, two national measures that focus on preventable harm, infections and other safety events.
Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade is a public-service program that grades hospitals on more than 30 measures tied to preventable medical errors, infections and injuries. Leapfrog president and CEO Leah Binder said an A grade is “a strong sign that the hospital is committed to protecting patients from harm.”
Healthgrades’ Patient Safety Excellence Award goes to hospitals in the top 10% nationwide for patient safety, based on the lowest occurrence of 13 preventable patient-safety events. In Healthgrades’ 2026 announcement, 438 hospitals in 40 states won the award, and 100,819 patient-safety events could have been avoided between 2022 and 2024 if all hospitals had performed like those winners.
Oviedo Medical Center also picked up five-star recognition for hip fracture treatment, outpatient total hip replacement for 2025-2026, and sepsis treatment for 2022-2026. Healthgrades’ hospital profile also lists a Gastrointestinal Care Excellence Award.
The hospital sits at 8300 Red Bug Lake Rd in Oviedo and now operates as a 96-bed acute care hospital with a 22-bed emergency department, diagnostic imaging, outpatient lab services and a medical office building. It also runs three off-site freestanding emergency departments tied to the hospital: HCA Florida Alafaya Emergency, HCA Florida Maitland Emergency and HCA Florida Baldwin Park Emergency.
Oviedo Medical Center opened as a 64-bed acute care hospital in 2017, after first operating as a freestanding emergency department in 2013. HCA Florida later added two new operating room suites, a 14,000-square-foot post-anesthesia care unit with 14 bays and a newly completed fourth floor.
CEO Cameron Howard said the recognitions reflected the physicians, nurses and colleagues who deliver safe, high-quality care every day.
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