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WASHINGTON, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, every hospital and ASC across the country received a letter signed by four influential national employer groups the Health Transformation Alliance, ERISA Industry Committee, National Alliance of Health Care Purchaser Coalitions, and the Business Group on Health requesting their participation in the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey and Leapfrog Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Survey.
The organizations represent in total over 12,000 employers with more than 55 million lives. Their collective voice as purchasers sends a strong signal to the health care market of their expectation for high quality, safe care. As organizations that speak out for America s employers, who invest significantly in the health and well-being of employees, we feel that participation in Leapfrog Surveys is vital to achieving real progress towards a safer, higher-quality, more transparent health care system for all, said E
Here are N.J.’s safest hospitals. See how yours fared in new national report.
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J. is the only hospital in the state to receive straight-A s in the Leapfrog safety report card since the surveys began in 2012.
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New Jersey hospitals rank 17th best in the nation for safety, a drop from eighth place a year ago and a potentially troubling sign as the pandemic continues to make unrelenting demands on healthcare professionals, according to the latest Leapfrog Hospital Safety report card.
Six hospitals went up a grade while 15 hospitals went down a grade, according to an analysis by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, a consumer, research nonprofit that jointly releases the report with Leapfrog.