Hackensack Meridian Health Pascack Valley Medical Center, in Westwood, received an A grade.
Holy Name Medical Center, in Teaneck, received a B grade.
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, in Englewood, received an A grade.
Hackensack University Medical Center, in Hackensack, received a B 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.
Subscribe This pandemic emphasized how much we rely on America s health care workforce, Leapfrog Group President and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release. Our straight A hospitals remind us how preparedness protected their patients as well as their workforce and created a high level of organizational resilience.
Hiram Hospital Scores High On Safety By Watchdog Group - Dallas-Hiram, GA - Wellstar Paulding Hospital did exceptionally well protecting its patients from mistakes and infections even during a coronavirus pandemic.
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MISSION, Kan., May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ (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.
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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.