The Leapfrog Group awarded St. Francis Medical Center an A grade Hospital Safety Score.
The score reflects how well hospitals protect patients from accidents, errors, injuries and infections.
The Hospital Safety Score is compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety and is administered by The Leapfrog Group, an independent industry watchdog. It is the first hospital safety rating to be analyzed in the peer-reviewed Journal of Patient Safety.
Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm.
Measures include evaluating the use of computerized order entry, which makes medication orders safer and more accurate, Hand washing, ventilator associated pneumonia, nurse staffing, leadership and teamwork and medication reconciliation.
Out of 2,541 hospitals surveyed across the country, 813 hospitals received an A. Much like a school grade, an “A” demonstrated the highest level of hospital safety performance.
This is the second year St. Francis earned an A grade.
More information is online at stfrancismedical.org.
