KELLER ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, N.Y.  –   WEST POINT, N.Y. – Keller Army Community Hospital received the ‘Top General Hospital Award’ from The Leapfrog Group during the 2025 Leapfrog Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner, held December 15, 2025, in National Harbor, Md.

The award honors hospitals that demonstrate the highest performance in the nation on quality and patient safety, including ethical billing and informed patient consent procedures, lower infection rates, prevention of medication errors, and surgical safety.

“Earning the Leapfrog Group's 'Top General Hospital Award' is a testament to Keller's unwavering commitment to providing the highest quality and safest care for our patients,” said Col. Sean J. Hipp, Commander, Keller Army Community Hospital. “This recognition reflects the dedication of our entire team to ethical practices, patient empowerment, and continuous improvement in all areas of hospital performance.”
Top hospitals distinguish themselves through superior systems for preventing medication errors, improved hospital performance on billing ethics and informed consent, improved hospital performance on Leapfrog’s nurse staffing measurements, and lower infection rates, demonstrating excellence across various aspects of patient care.

“We are incredibly proud to be recognized as a '2025 Top General Hospital' by The Leapfrog Group. This award underscores our ongoing commitment to excellence and our dedication to raising the bar for quality and patient safety. We will continue to embrace best practices and strive for even greater improvements in the years to come,” added Mr. Collin Speed, Patient Safety Manager, Keller Army Community Hospital.

“This year marks Leapfrog’s 25th anniversary—and the 25th year of the Leapfrog Hospital Survey—making it especially meaningful to recognize our 2025 Top Hospitals and Top ASCs,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “These honorees are a testament to the extraordinary dedication of these facilities’ entire teams, boards, clinicians, administrators, staff and community volunteers. You don’t achieve results like this without everyone putting their heart into patient care.”

The full list of top hospitals can be found at https://www.leapfroggroup.org/ratings-reports/top-hospitals.

The Leapfrog Group is nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for health care consumers and purchasers, using their collective influence to foster positive change in U.S. health care. Leapfrog is the nation’s premier advocate of transparency in health care—collecting, analyzing and disseminating data to inform value-based purchasing and improved decision-making.