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Leapfrog Group gave D safety grades to Phoenixville and Pottstown hospitals in its spring report, while Chester County Hospital and Paoli Hospital received A s. (Shutterstock)
PHOENIXVILLE, PA Hospital safety grades from Leapfrog were low for several Tower Health hospitals in Chester County, including Phoenixville Hospital, Brandywine Hospital, and Pottstown Hospital.
The three facilities were awarded grades of D by the Leapfrog Group, an organization the performs regular assessments of hospitals. Numerous Pennsylvania hospitals received top safety marks while others didn t quite measure up in The Leapfrog Group s annual spring safety grades.
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.
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SCRANTON – The estate of a Carbondale woman alleges professional negligence on the part of a local hospital, physician and nurse practitioner led to her death from cardiac arrest two years ago.
James A. Zaltauskas, Administrator of the Estate of Sandra J. Skotleski and the Estate itself of Carbondale filed suit in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas on April 20 versus Community Medical Center (doing business as “Geisinger Community Medical Center”), Wilson Young, M.D. and John Zaic Jr., CRNP, all of Scranton.
“Skotleski was admitted to Community Medical Center (doing business as ‘Geisinger Community Medical Center’) on or about March 26, 2019 with exertional shortness of breath for a few weeks associated with retrosternal chest pain and lower abdominal pain. On March 27, 2019, Skotleski was found to be in rapid atrial fibrillation, with a ventricular rate of 181. Skotleski was treated with intravenous Ca
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From ICU to vaccinated: Geisinger s first COVID-19 patient one year later
A man from Clarks Summit was Geisinger s first COVID-19 patient, after getting the virus on March 7, 2020. A year later, he got his second dose of the vaccine. Author: Nikki Krize Updated: 4:33 PM EST March 10, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. Daniel Bisset, 49, from Clarks Summit, says he is lucky to be alive after spending two weeks in a coma last year with COVID-19.
Bisset was Geisinger s first patient with the coronavirus. When he was rushed to Geisinger-Community Medical Center in Scranton, Bisset was given a five percent chance of survival. I saw the inside of the ICU, and it s not a place you want to see, Bisset said.