Healthcare Innovation November 7, 2019
David Raths

Organization seeing fewer deaths from preventable errors it monitors

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s groundbreaking “To Err is Human” report, the Leapfrog Group’s fall 2019 Hospital Safety Grades highlight progress on patient safety.

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is a bi-annual grading assigning “A” through “F” letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. It is the nation’s only rating focused entirely on patient safety—preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.

The “To Err is Human” report revealed nearly 100,000 lives are lost every year due to preventable medical errors. Subsequent research suggests the number may be twice as high, according to the Leapfrog Group.

“In stark contrast to...

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