For over 20 years the Leapfrog Group has been doing hospital surveys to grade hospitals in a variety of areas including infections, problems with surgeries, safety problems, practices to prevent errors, and doctors, nurses and hospital staff.

You can search by city, state and a few other criteria.

Knoxville and Nashville hospitals appear to rate overall better than hospitals near/around Atlanta and Birmingham.

Not all hospitals agree with the Leapfrog Groups methodologies. In 2019, "NCH Healthcare in Naples, Florida, filed a suit to challenge its "D" rating in an effort to keep the grade from being published. The suit alleges deceptive and unfair trade practices, as well as defamation, saying the health system did not participate in the 2019 survey and, thus, Leapfrog had to rely on secondary information for more than half of its measures to compare it against hospitals that did provide those measures."