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Family Features When Judie Burrows, an adventurous, retired teacher, broke her hip during a bicycle accident, her family trusted the doctors and the hospital. They were not worried about a routine hip surgery.
“I didn’t realize at the time that we should have worried, even though this was a routine procedure,” said her son, Steve Burrows. “We thought all hospitals were basically the same.”
Burrows, who produced the award-winning HBO documentary “Bleed Out” recounting his mother’s story, points to an option like the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade as how his family might have compared hospital safety.
âThe Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety.
ââThis is the second consecutive Leapfrog âAâ Safety Grade for McLaren Flint and a true testament to the hard work our physicians and team have been focusing on in regards to the hospitalâs safe care patient initiatives,â said Chad Grant, president and CEO of McLaren Flint. âThis achievement is even more meaningful knowing the many challenges the pandemic has brought to maintaining the delivery of high quality health care for more than a year.â
âLeah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said, âAn âAâ safety grade is an elite designation that your community should be proud of. The past year has been extraordinarily difficult for hospitals, but McLaren Flint shows us it is possible to keep a laser focus on patients and their safety, no matter what it takes.â
58 hospitals received a B grade.
98 hospitals received a C grade.
19 hospitals received a D grade.
3 hospitals received an F grade.
California hospitals that received an A grade include the Keck Hospital of USC in Los Angeles, Stanford Health Care s hospitals in Stanford and Pleasanton, Temecula Valley Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.
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Los Angeles Community Hospital, Memorial Hospital of Gardena and San Joaquin General Hospital were the three that received a failing grade from Leapfrog. Patch has reached out to these hospitals for comment.
It s worth noting the hospitals were graded during a time of extraordinary pressure on the health care system due to the coronavirus pandemic.
UpdatedThu, May 6, 2021 at 2:00 pm CT
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The Leapfrog Group recently released its spring 2021 Hospital Safety Grades, assessing more than 2,700 U.S. hospitals on how well a facility prevents medical errors and other harm to patients. (Shutterstock)
AUSTIN, TX Several Austin area hospitals received top safety marks while others didn t quite measure up in The Leapfrog Group s annual spring safety grades released Thursday.
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.
More than 2,700 general, acute-care U.S. hospitals were assessed for Leapfrog s Spring Safety Grades. Among those hospitals, 27 have achieved 19 consecutive A grades in every biannual grading cycle since Leapfrog launched the safety grades in spring 2012.