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.
MaineHealth hospitals earn grade of ‘A’
All five MaineHealth hospitals eligible for a grade from Leapfrog received the highest safety score offered
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STATE All five eligible MaineHealth hospitals – Franklin Memorial Hospital, Maine Medical Center, Mid Coast Hospital, Pen Bay Medical Center and Southern Maine Health Care – have received a fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade of ‘A,’ the highest hospital safety grade that Leapfrog offers.
Leapfrog assigns an ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’ or ‘F’ grade to 2,600 U.S. acute-care hospitals across the country every six months. Grades are based on 27 measures of publicly available hospital safety data. The peer-reviewed methodology evaluates a hospital’s performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other harms to patients in their care. Nationwide, 34 percent of hospitals received an ‘A’ grade this fall.
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St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J. is the only hospital in the state to receive straight-A s in the Leapfrog safety report card since the surveys began in 2012.
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New Jersey hospitals rank 17th best in the nation for safety, a drop from eighth place a year ago and a potentially troubling sign as the pandemic continues to make unrelenting demands on healthcare professionals, according to the latest Leapfrog Hospital Safety report card.
Six hospitals went up a grade while 15 hospitals went down a grade, according to an analysis by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, a consumer, research nonprofit that jointly releases the report with Leapfrog.
Two Midlands hospitals are above the rest when it comes to safety in new report card
Dec. 14 Two Midlands hospitals stand out in safety grades released by a medical watchdog group Monday.
Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge continues to be ranked as one of the safest hospitals in South Carolina, according to the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
Joining it is Lexington Medical Center, which was rated among the safest hospitals as well. The Columbia and Lexington hospitals received the highest grade from the Leapfrog Group, which issues biannual safety rankings.
Since 2012, the Leapfrog Group has published Hospital Safety Scores twice a year once in the spring and once during the fall to create transparency in the U.S. health system. The rating is focused on errors, accidents, injuries and infections.