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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)
NEW HAMPSHIRE Several Granite State hospitals received top safety marks while others didn t quite measure up in The Leapfrog Group s annual spring safety grades released last week.
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.
Gov. Chris Sununu s mandate that New Hampshire schools return to full-time, in-class learning by April 19 made some breathe a sigh of relief, while others are not as sure. I think most parents and kids are excited to be going back, said Dr. Bridget Marvinsmith, a family physician at Portsmouth Regional Hospital. It s a huge sign of returning to normalcy. But, it is certainly not unexpected that some families, some kids are worried or anxious about what returning will look like.
Some students and parents fear outbreaks of COVID-19, and are uncertain that schools are fully prepared to keep them safe.
Spring is a great time to get outside, for us and for our pets, but it is also time to get ready for fleas and ticks.
Martha Wassell, head of infectious disease control at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, said ticks have definitely made an early appearance this year on the Seacoast. I can t say a lot about the numbers of ticks because we do not do tick counts, she said. But they are here, and have been increasing.
Wassell said there are specific reasons for the increase. She said warmer winters, increased humidity and fewer farms are creating favorable conditions for ticks.
SOMERSWORTH HCA Healthcare will close an occupational care facility and two area walk-in clinics associated with Frisbie Memorial Hospital at noon May 14.
Services currently provided at Seacoast Redicare, an occupational care office on High Street in Somersworth, will be transitioned to Portsmouth Regional Hospital to ensure “uninterrupted access to these critical services in the community,” HCA representatives said in a statement. HCA is the parent company of both Frisbie, located in Rochester, and Portsmouth Regional Hospital.
Barrington Walk-In Care in Barrington and White Mountain Medical Center Walk-In Care in Sanbornville are the walk-in clinics that will close. HCA representatives stressed the family care practices co-located at those locations will continue despite the walk-in clinic closures.