These are the best hospitals in Massachusetts, according to the spring 2021 Leapfrog safety report
Updated 9:39 AM;
Healthcare providers in Massachusetts, take a bow.
Hospitals in Massachusetts were ranked first in the nation in Leapfrog’s Spring 2021 hospital safety report.
Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization focused on healthcare safety, has issued the report twice a year since spring 2012. Over the past nine years, three hospitals in Massachusetts have received straight A’s: Beverly Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, and Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River.
The nonprofit assigns letter grades to over 2,600 hospitals nationwide based on more than two dozen performance measures ranging from “responsiveness of hospital staff” to surgical outcomes and other measures of patient care.
UMass Memorial and Harrington health care systems, seeking merger, file with state regulatory agencies
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
UMass Memorial Health Care and Harrington Health Care System, seeking to become officially affiliated, have taken another step forward in the process by filing with state regulatory agencies.
The health care systems have jointly submitted the first in a series of required filings for UMass Memorial to become the parent company of Harrington, UMass Memorial said in a statement Tuesday. This would make Harrington Hospital, system employees and the medical group members of the UMass Memorial Health Care system.
UMass Memorial said it anticipates it could take up to four months to complete the final regulatory steps.