Advisory Board March 12, 2025
Healthgrades on Tuesday announced the winners of its 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award, recognizing hospitals that “excel at providing top-quality care while preventing serious safety events during hospital stays.”
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Details on the award
The Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award is based on an analysis of inpatient Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data that measures a hospital’s clinical performance across 13 different patient safety indicators (PSIs), which each represent a serious, potentially preventable complication.
To be eligible for the award, hospitals were required to meet certain clinical quality thresholds, have no instances of a foreign object being left behind during a procedure, and report data on at least seven out...