Wisconsin Hospital Safety Grades 2021: The Best And The Worst - New Berlin, WI - Safety grades by the nonprofit health care watchdog group Leapfrog show how hospitals in Wisconsin responded to the coronavirus pandemic.
Heywood Hospital gets an A from Leapfrog Group
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GARDNER The Leapfrog Group is a national organization committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. Committed to patient safety and quality, Heywood Hospital has participated in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey each year since 2006, achieving an “A” grade for the spring 2021 period, and an “A” for five of the past seven consecutive grading periods.
For the spring 2021 safety grade release, 33% of participating hospitals received an A grade, 24% received a B, 35% a C, 7% a D, and less than 1% an F. Heywood Hospital received an A for the second consecutive rating period.
NCH nationally recognized with an A for the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
Updated 4/30/2021 5:04 PM
Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) received an A grade in the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing NCH s achievements protecting patients from errors, injuries, accidents and infections. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade assigns an A, B, C, D, or F grade to all general hospitals across the country and is updated every six months. It is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospitals prevention of medical errors and other harms to patients in their care.
Effective leadership to prevent errors
Enough qualified nurses
Specially trained doctors care for ICU patients
Patch has reached out to Cape Cod Healthcare, the company that owns the hospital, for comment on the grades and will update if we hear back.
More than 2,700 general, acute-care U.S. hospitals were assessed for Leapfrog s Spring Safety Grades. In Massachusetts:
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14 hospitals received a B grade.
10 hospitals received a C grade.
0 hospitals received a D grade.
0 hospitals received an F grade.
It s worth noting the hospitals were graded during a time of extraordinary pressure on the health care system due to the coronavirus pandemic.