Nine Things to Know Jump Out of Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Report
By Clive Riddle, April 27, 2018
In May talk of frogs would lead one to the annual Calaveras Jumping Frog
Jubilee (check out
www.frogtown.com).
But in April, talk of frogs leads one to The Leapfrog Group, who just
released the spring 2018 edition of the Leapfrog biannual
Hospital Safety Grades. Leapfrog tells us their “grading
assigns “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” and “F” letter grades to general acute-care
hospitals in the U.S., and is the nation’s only rating focused entirely
on errors, accidents, injuries and infections that collectively are the
third leading cause of death in the United States.”
Here’s nine things to know from the Leapfrog report card results they
have shared:
1.
Five “A” hospitals receiving this grade for the very first time this
spring had an “F” grade in the past
2.
46 hospitals have achieved an “A” for the first time since the Leapfrog
Hospital Safety Grade began six years ago
3.
89 hospitals receiving an “A” at one point had received a “D” or “F”
4.
Of the approximately 2,500 hospitals graded, 30 percent earned an “A,”
28 percent earned a “B,” 35 percent a “C,” six percent a “D” and one
percent an “F”
5.
The five states with the highest percentage of “A” hospitals this spring
are Hawaii, Idaho, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Virginia
6.
Rhode Island, Hawaii, Wisconsin, and Idaho once ranked near the bottom
of the state rankings of percentage of “A” hospitals but now rank in the
top ten
7.
Hospitals with “F” grades are located in California, Washington, D.C.,
Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey and
New York
8.
There are no “A” hospitals in Alaska, Delaware or North Dakota
9.
Impressively, 49 hospitals nationwide have achieved an “A” in every
grading update since the launch of the Safety Grade in spring 2012
In addition to staterankings, you can search for specific hospital
safety results at their webaite:
http://www.hospitalsafetygrade.org |
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