The Sarasota Herald-Tribune
SARASOTA COUNTY – Four Sarasota area hospitals earned A grades in the latest hospital report cards released by the rating organization the Leapfrog Group Thursday.
Lakewood Ranch Medical Center and Manatee Memorial Hospital both earned B grades. Blake Medical Center earned a C, as did Bayfront Health Port Charlotte and Bayfront Health Punta Gorda in Charlotte County. Hospitals with a consistent pattern of protecting patients from errors, accidents and injuries, like these straight A hospitals, seem to have been more prepared when the pandemic hit, Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said in a prepared statement. For many, safety and quality are embedded in their daily work at all levels of the organization, which prepared them in turn to respond to the rapidly evolving pandemic.
Sarasota shines in area hospital rankings (Source: WWSB) By ABC7 Staff | April 30, 2021 at 2:23 PM EDT - Updated April 30 at 2:23 PM
SARASOTA, Fla. (North Port Sun) - Area hospitals have gotten good grades in new rankings released this week by The Leapfrog Group.
Our coverage partners from the North Port Sun are reporting four hospitals in Sarasota County received As, three hospitals in Manatee County got Bs and Cs, and two hospitals in Charlotte County received Cs in the latest safety ratings from the Leapfrog Group.
Grades are based on two sets of standards: outcome measures, which include “errors, accidents and injuries that this hospital has publicly reported,” and process measures, which include “the management structures and procedures a hospital has in place to protect patients from errors, accidents and injuries,” the report states.
Sarasota Memorial Hospital distributes 3,000 COVID-19 vaccines during weekend event (Source: WWSB) By ABC7 Staff | January 10, 2021 at 5:19 PM EST - Updated January 10 at 5:19 PM
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) -Local hospitals are stepping in to help distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to the community. This weekend Sarasota Memorial Hospital used their own supply of the vaccine to help vaccinate nearly 3-thousand people 65 and older.
“I felt it when I got the ticket, I felt it driving in this morning, I felt it walking into the hospital and tears were in my eyes,” said the first person to get vaccinated during SMH’s COVID vaccine distribution event,” said Aidan Farrell, who was the first to get vaccinated during the event this weekend.
For the first time Saturday, Sarasota Memorial Hospital began vaccinations for people over 65. They plan to inoculate as many as 3,000 residents Saturday and Sunday.