Advisory Board May 2, 2024
The Leapfrog Group on Wednesday released its spring 2024 Leapfrog Hospitals Safety Grades and named the states and metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of “A” hospitals.
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Methodology
For the report, Leapfrog assigned “A” to “F” letter grades to nearly 3,000 general acute-care hospitals using up to 22 evidence-based measures of patient safety, including data from CMS Medicare PSI 90 Patient Safety and Adverse Events composite.
The ratings, which are updated twice a year, do not cover facilities such as military or VA hospitals, critical access hospitals, specialty hospitals, children’s hospitals, or outpatient surgery centers because of missing data.
How hospitals performed
In the latest report, nearly 30% of...
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