Leapfrog graded 3K hospitals from ‘A’ to ‘F.’ How did yours fare?

The Leapfrog Group recently released its fall 2023 Hospital Safety Grades, with almost 30% of hospitals earning an “A.”

‘Extremely rare’: How St. Bernard Hospital transformed its Leapfrog safety grade

Methodology

For the latest report, Leapfrog assigned almost 3,000 general acute care hospitals letter grades from “A” to “F” using 22 evidence-based measures of patient safety. These measures were placed into two domains, each of which accounted for 50% of a hospital’s overall score:

• Process/structural measures, which represent how often a hospital gives patients a recommended treatment for a given medical condition or procedure and the environment where patients receive...