Becker's Healthcare April 29, 2021
The Leapfrog Group gave 10 hospitals failing grades in its spring 2021 Hospital Safety Grades released April 29.
The organization assigns letter grades biannually to hospitals based on their ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections. In the latest update, grades were assigned to more than 2,700 general acute-care hospitals in the U.S.
The data for this safety grades update are from immediately before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Leapfrog said. Still, the organization said some measures used in this spring’s update can be a proxy for the safety...
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