Medical Economics May 11, 2022
Nonprofit commends workforce, asks for renewed commitment to patient safety.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused “a significant decline” in some measures of patient safety in hospitals, according to a new national report.
The Leapfrog Group published its spring 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns letter grades to almost 3,000 general hospitals across the United States. The grades are based on more than 30 measures of patient safety and a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
“The health care workforce has faced unprecedented levels of pressure during the pandemic, and as a result, patients’ experience with their care appears to have suffered,” Leah Binder, Leapfrog Group president and CEO said in a press release. “We...
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