Whether you’re one to look at the glass half full or half empty, consider these numbers: The A and B hospitals together number 1,437 – while the C, D, and F hospitals combined number 2,134, or 607 more not “making the grade”, so to speak. But even MA, with its urban center in Boston, ranked 4th in the report with 36 out of 58 hospitals earning top marks.
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Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital, Munson Healthcare Grayling Hospital, Otsego Memorial Hospital in Gaylord and War Memorial Hospital all received A’s.
San Clemente residents are in OK hands as Saddleback Memorial Medical Center of San Clemente each earned a B grade from the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit founded by employers and health-care providers.
McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey, got a C.
Leapfrog uses 30 different evidence-based measures of patient safety to produce a single A, B, C, D or F score, representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm.
Munson Medical Center in Traverse City says regardless of their score they are consistently trying to improve. Three others, Memorial, Orange Park, and St. Vincents Riverside, received “B” grades. Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Minnesota rounded out the top five. The goal was to determine a patient’s risk of further injury or infection if they visited a certain hospital.
Coinciding with Monday’s report, Leapfrog worked with the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine on a study estimating the number of avoidable deaths at hospitals in each grade level.
The analysis concluded an estimated 33,439 lives could be saved each year if all hospitals had the same performance as those receiving an A.
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Leapfrog releases its rankings twice a year. It is calculated by top patient safety experts, peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public.
