58 hospitals received a B grade.
98 hospitals received a C grade.
19 hospitals received a D grade.
3 hospitals received an F grade.
California hospitals that received an A grade include the Keck Hospital of USC in Los Angeles, Stanford Health Care s hospitals in Stanford and Pleasanton, Temecula Valley Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.
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Los Angeles Community Hospital, Memorial Hospital of Gardena and San Joaquin General Hospital were the three that received a failing grade from Leapfrog. Patch has reached out to these hospitals for comment.
It s worth noting the hospitals were graded during a time of extraordinary pressure on the health care system due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Published on Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Greer Memorial Hospital earned a Straight A honor, receiving five or more A ratings in a row, in the Spring 2021 Hospital Safety Grades.
Seven Prisma Health hospitals, including Greer Memorial Hospital, have earned A grades in the Spring 2021 Hospital Safety Grades, released by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization committed to healthcare quality and safety.
The Leapfrog Group assigns letter grades to approximately 2,600 hospitals across the country based on their performance in process/structural and outcome measures, representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.
Some of the highlights of Prisma Health’s spring 2021 safety grades include Laurens Hospital improving their performance from a B to an A during the reporting period. Baptist Parkridge, Greer Memorial, Hillcrest and Oconee Memorial hospitals earned Leapfrog’s “Straight A ho
UpdatedThu, May 6, 2021 at 2:00 pm CT
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The Leapfrog Group recently released its spring 2021 Hospital Safety Grades, assessing more than 2,700 U.S. hospitals on how well a facility prevents medical errors and other harm to patients. (Shutterstock)
AUSTIN, TX Several Austin area hospitals received top safety marks while others didn t quite measure up in The Leapfrog Group s annual spring safety grades released Thursday.
The nonprofit health care watchdog group grades hospitals twice a year, assigning letter grades from A to F based on each hospital s ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
More than 2,700 general, acute-care U.S. hospitals were assessed for Leapfrog s Spring Safety Grades. Among those hospitals, 27 have achieved 19 consecutive A grades in every biannual grading cycle since Leapfrog launched the safety grades in spring 2012.