CHI Franciscan Awarded Among the Highest Patient Safety Marks in Washington State
CHI Franciscan hospitals recognized for patient safety with top-scoring A and B grades in recent Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades
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TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ CHI has received all A and B in safety grades according to the 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades report released by the Leapfrog Group. As a leader in patient safety, CHI Franciscan has sustained some of the highest scores across Washington since spring 2019.
The report card uses 27 evidence-based measures of patient safety to assign A, B, C, D, and F grades to more than 2,600 acute-care hospitals across the nation.
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Methodist Mansfield Received An ‘A’ In 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
MANSFIELD, TX, December 14, 2020 – Methodist Mansfield Medical Center was awarded an ‘A’ in the fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing the hospital’s achievements protecting patients from harm and providing safer health care. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The 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 based on a hospital’s performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other harms to patients in their care.
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PORTLAND The Leapfrog Group has named four MaineHealth hospitals LincolnHealth, Pen Bay Medical Center, Waldo County General Hospital and Stephens Memorial Hospital as Top Rural Hospitals 2020. Leapfrog’s Top Rural Hospital Awards recognize achievements in patient safety and quality.
“We could not be more proud of the care team at Stephens,” said Andrea Dodge Patstone, President of Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway, Maine. “Receiving this elite Leapfrog designation in the same year that our team earned a 5-Star rating for patient experience from the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is truly amazing.”
The Leapfrog Group, an independent national quality evaluator, considered more than 2,200 hospitals from across the country for a Top Hospital Award. Of them, 105 were selected as Top Hospitals. The Top Rural Hospital Award went to just 19 hospitals, meaning MaineHealth hospitals make up more than 1/5 of the rural hospitals that were