Hospital receives A grade for patient safety
ROXBOROUGH >> Roxborough Memorial Hospital was awarded an A from The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 2018 Hospital Safety Grade.
The designation recognizes Roxborough Memorial Hospital’s efforts in protecting patients from harm and meeting the highest safety standards in the United States.
The Leapfrog Group is a national organization committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. The Safety Grade assigns an A,B,C,D or F grade to hospitals across the country based on their performance in preventing medical errors, infections and other harms among patients in their care.
“Receiving an A reflects we are providing the excellent care our community members should expect to receive,” said Nicole Alerding, performance improvement director and patient safety officer at Roxborough Memorial Hospital. “Our dedicated staff works hard to keep patients safe from errors, accidents, injuries and infection.”
“Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grades recognize hospitals like Roxborough Memorial Hospital that focus on advancing
safety,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “This ranking provides an important resource for patients, and a benchmark for hospitals, to determine how care at one hospital compares to others in a region. Hospitals that earn an A Hospital Safety Grade deserve to be recognized for their efforts in preventing medical harm and errors.”
Developed under the guidance of a national expert panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.
Roxborough Memorial Hospital was one of 855 across the United States awarded an A in the fall 2018 update of grades.