Newswise — Gotlieb Memorial Hospital, part of Loyola University Medical Center, has received an “A” Hospital Safety Score from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national non-profit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits.
Loyola University Medical Center, part of Loyola University Health System, also received an A.
The A scores were awarded in the latest update to The Hospital Safety ScoreTM, the A, B, C, D or F scores assigned to the U.S. Hospitals based on preventable medical errors, injuries, accidents and infections. The Hospital Safety Score was compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety. It is the first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety (April, 2013).
“Earning an “A” on the Hospital Safety Score demonstrates that this hospital has exhibited excellence in our national database of patient safety measures,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group.
Larry Goldberg, president and CEO of Loyola University Health System, said: “We are very gratified to receive this recognition of our efforts to protect patient safety. Patients are at the center of who we are and what we do. The impact on patient quality and safety is core to how we make decisions with our organization.” The Hospital Safety Score is calculated under the guidance of The Leapfrog Group’s eight-member Blue Ribbon Expert Panel. It uses 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from infections, injuries, and medical and medication errors. Leapfrog’s expert panel includes: John Birkmeyer (University of Michigan), Ashish Jha (Harvard University), Arnold Millstein (Stanford University), Peter Pronovost (Johns Hopkins University), Patrick Romano (University of California, Davis), Sara Singer (Harvard University), Tim Vogus (Vanderbilt University), and Robert Wachter (University of California, San Francisco).
About The Leapfrog Group
The Leapfrog Group (www.leapfroggroup.org) is a national nonprofit organization using the collective leverage of large purchasers of health care to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality and affordability of health care for Americans. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey allows purchasers to structure their contracts and purchasing to reward the highest performing hospitals. The Leapfrog Group was founded in November 2000 with support from the Business Roundtable and national funders, and is now independently operated with support from its purchaser and other members.
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