Advisory Board May 1, 2020
The Leapfrog Group on Wednesday released its Spring Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, giving about one-third of hospitals an “A” grade.
Methodology
For the Spring 2020 report, Leapfrog assigned “A” to “F” letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States based on 13 process and structural measures and 15 outcome measures that represent medical errors, accidents, injuries, and infections.
The Leapfrog ratings, which are updated twice a year, focus on acute-care hospitals. The ratings do not cover facilities such as critical access hospitals, specialty hospitals, and federal hospitals because of missing data.
How hospitals performed
In the latest report, of the 2,627 general acute-care hospitals graded:
- 867 hospitals earned an “A” rating; ...
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