Healthcare & Safety in Wellington
Wellington Regional Medical Center holds real, recent quality recognition, and Wellington's crime data reads favorably on one major scoring system -- though a second system rates it closer to average, a disagreement worth disclosing plainly rather than picking whichever reads better.
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Wellington Regional Medical Center earned the 2026 Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award for the second year in a row (2025-2026), placing it in the top 10% of hospitals nationwide on Healthgrades' risk-adjusted analysis of roughly 4,500 hospitals across 13 patient-safety indicators. It also holds Healthgrades' Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award. On Healthgrades' own patient-recommendation metric, 58% of patients recommend the hospital -- a real, disclosed figure rather than an inflated one.
Crime Data: Two Scoring Systems, Two Different Reads
CrimeGrade.org gives Wellington an A+ overall crime grade, placing it in the 95th percentile nationally (overall crime rate 10.69 per 1,000 residents; violent crime 1.320/1,000, 94th percentile; property crime 7.066/1,000, 83rd percentile). NeighborhoodScout, using 2024 calendar-year FBI data released in October 2025, instead describes Wellington's overall crime rate of 9 per 1,000 as 'near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America.' Both sources report a similar raw per-1,000 rate, but interpret it very differently -- CrimeGrade as much-safer-than-average, NeighborhoodScout as roughly average -- a genuine scoring-methodology disagreement disclosed here rather than resolved.
A Documented Downward Trend
CrimeGrade's own longer-run analysis reports an overall downward trend in Wellington crime across 21 years of data, with both violent and property crime decreasing, projecting the 2026 rate to come in below the 2019 level -- a consistent directional signal even amid the scoring disagreement above.
Key takeaways
- Wellington Regional Medical Center earned Healthgrades' 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award for the second consecutive year (top 10% nationally) and its Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award; 58% of patients recommend the hospital on Healthgrades.
- CrimeGrade.org rates Wellington A+ overall (95th percentile, 10.69 crimes/1,000 residents); NeighborhoodScout, using the same general crime-rate figure (9/1,000), instead characterizes it as near the national average -- a genuine scoring disagreement between the two sources, disclosed rather than resolved into one verdict.
- CrimeGrade's own 21-year trend analysis shows both violent and property crime declining in Wellington, with 2026 projected below 2019 levels.
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