Healthcare Finance News May 10, 2022
The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic have hampered progress on the patient safety front, though most hospitals received passing grades.
The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers focused on healthcare safety, released the spring 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade today, finding an overall decline in patient safety measures the report considers “significant.”
Recent studies have shown that the pandemic has hampered years of progress on patient safety efforts. The updated data included in the Safety Grade, some of which reflects a pandemic-era time frame, heightens these findings and demonstrates how patient care worsened due to strains on the healthcare system and workforce.
The updated Hospital Safety Grades are published alongside a new report, Patient Experience...
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