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Mercy Health â Lorain Hospital once again was awarded an âAâ in the fall Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing the hospitalâs achievements providing safer health care, according to a news release.
This is the second time in 2020 that the nationally recognized rating organization has awarded Mercy Health â Lorain Hospital with an âAâ grade.
The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Safety Grade is a letter grade assigned to all general hospitals across the country and updated every six months, assessing how well the hospital prevents medical errors and other harms to patients, the release said.
The Regional Medical Center has a failing grade for patient safety in the latest survey by a national hospital safety watchdog group.
But the hospital s chief executive officer says the survey group is becoming increasingly irrelevant to what insurance companies as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and other hospitals use as improvement indicators. When they started work very many years ago, they had a very noble thing to do, RMC Interim CEO and President Kirk Wilson said. Many insurance companies signed on and supported them, but they have been increasingly irrelevant to the insurance field and hospitals.
Hospital safety grades rank Marion County facilities
A national patient safety report again ranked AdventHealth Ocala as the top-scoring hospital in Marion County.
The facility at 1500 SW First Ave. maintained a grade of B from the nonprofit Leapfrog Group for the third straight report dating back to the fall 2019 rankings.
The group releases the rankings twice per year: One in the spring and again in the fall.
Meanwhile, West Marion Community Hospital and Ocala Regional Medical Center, both operated by Ocala Health, maintained a C grade. West Marion s report grade slipped from a B to C in the spring rankings.
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