HealthExec July 15, 2020
Maine has topped all states in two separate five-year categories of hospital safety—percentage of “A” grade hospitals (57.1%) and average annual placement in these rankings (3.63). How did your state do?
The numbers were crunched by Grand Canyon University in Arizona using safety data collected by the Leapfrog Group in Washington, D.C., according to a GCU blog post.
The “A” grade reflects preventable accidents and medical errors occurring at an admirably low rate.
Here are some of the key results.
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