Medscape November 15, 2021
Heidi Splete

Approximately one third of acute care hospitals in the United States earned an “A” grade for patient safety, according to the Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade report, a quality check on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, infections, and injuries.

The Fall 2021 Hospital Safety Grade assigned grades to 2901 general acute care hospitals. Overall, 32% of the hospitals received an A grade, 26% received a B, 35% received a C, 7% received a D, and less than 1% received an F. The states were ranked in order of their percentage of A-grade hospitals. States with the highest percentages of A-grade hospitals were Virginia (56.2%), North Carolina (55.1%), Idaho (53.9%), Massachusetts (51.7%), and Colorado 48.8%)....

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