Healthcare & Safety in Brandon
Brandon offers real, hospital-anchored local healthcare -- a genuine differentiator from bedroom-community neighbors -- alongside a crime picture that reads as moderate and, notably, disagrees between citywide and neighborhood-level measurements.
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Learn moreHCA Florida Brandon Hospital anchors local care, with a mixed CMS quality picture
HCA Florida Brandon Hospital carries a 2-star overall CMS quality rating, with mixed results across measures: patient safety performs better than the national average, mortality performs about average, and readmission rates run below the national average (a weaker result on that specific measure). The hospital provides 24/7 emergency services and is a real local employment anchor beyond pure Tampa commuting, per Brandon's base profile -- but the CMS rating itself is more modest than the two hospitals covered for neighboring Wesley Chapel and Riverview, worth knowing plainly rather than glossing over.
Crime reads differently depending on whether you look citywide or by neighborhood
CrimeGrade.org gives Brandon an overall city safety grade of B, with crime estimated 32% below the national average and lower than 65% of major U.S. cities (population 50,000+); residents face roughly a 1-in-392 chance of violent crime and a 1-in-51 chance of property crime in a typical year. At the same time, a neighborhood-level breakdown of all 9 analyzed Brandon neighborhoods found every one earned a Grade A or better -- a genuine, if seemingly contradictory, difference likely reflecting how citywide aggregation versus neighborhood-level scoring weight commercial-corridor areas (like the SR 60 retail strip) differently than purely residential neighborhoods.
Read both crime figures together, not either alone
Take the citywide B grade as the more conservative, commercial-corridor-inclusive picture, and the neighborhood-level all-A-or-better result as evidence that Brandon's residential subdivisions specifically test as safe -- both are legitimate readings of the same underlying CrimeGrade.org data set, just at different levels of aggregation.
Key takeaways
- HCA Florida Brandon Hospital: 2-star overall CMS rating (better-than-average patient safety, average mortality, below-average readmission performance); 24/7 emergency services on site.
- CrimeGrade.org citywide grade: B, about 32% below the national crime average; roughly 1-in-392 violent crime risk and 1-in-51 property crime risk per year.
- At the neighborhood level, all 9 Brandon neighborhoods analyzed by CrimeGrade earned Grade A or better -- a genuine contrast with the citywide B grade, likely reflecting how commercial-corridor areas are weighted differently than residential ones.
- HCA Florida Brandon Hospital's CMS rating is more modest than the hospitals serving neighboring Wesley Chapel and Riverview -- a fair, plainly stated tradeoff.
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