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Health Brief: Baptist Golden Triangle nationally recognized for Straight A’s in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
By Special to The Dispatch May 11, 2021
COLUMBUS The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization driven by employers and other purchasers of health care, today announced the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle is one of only 27 hospitals in the United States to be awarded an “A” grade every grading cycle since 2012. This latest grade marked the 19 th consecutive time the hospital earned an “A’ for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety.
The hospital is the only hospital in Mississippi and one of only 27 in the United States to have received ‘Straight As’ for patient safety since Leapfrog began grading hospitals for patient safety in 2012.
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For Amy Bogue, executive director of the Allegro Family Clinic in Columbus, the examples spring easily to mind.
Several elderly patients who had developed urinary tract infections that could have been treated right away with antibiotics. One patient who had suffered a stroke.
Scared of contracting COVID-19 during a visit to the doctor, they waited too long to seek medical help, and their symptoms worsened, though thankfully they received care before it was too late.
“They’re delaying care for fear of COVID, but they’re having way worse side effects because they’re not taking care of the issue at hand,” Bogue said. “So it’s a little concerning.”