Becker's Healthcare May 6, 2024
Erica Carbajal

Since late last year, Becker’s has covered eight instances in which CMS issued an immediate jeopardy warning to hospitals. To avert the loss of CMS funding, hospitals that receive such warnings must submit and implement a comprehensive plan of correction to address any deficiencies for which they were cited.

An immediate jeopardy warning, however, does not necessarily equate to poor ratings in hospital rating and rankings programs. Four hospitals that have been cited since December earned a B grade in The Leapfrog Group’s 2024 spring safety grades.

Here are the Leapfrog safety grades of seven hospitals hit with immediate jeopardy warnings — all of which have since been lifted — in the last year:

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