Illinois ranks 27th in the country for its percentage of hospitals with high marks for safety, according to new Leapfrog ratings.
The University of Chicago Medical Center in Hyde Park earned its 21st consecutive A grade in ratings released by nonprofit Leapfrog Group.
by the nonprofit Leapfrog Group, which issues the grades twice a year. That’s down, however, from a year ago, when Leapfrog ranked Illinois 17th in the country for hospital safety, with 35% of Illinois hospitals achieving A grades.The Leapfrog grades are based on more than 30 measures of patient safety from the federal government, a Leapfrog survey and other sources. Measures include falls and trauma, hand hygiene and death rates among surgical patients with serious, treatable conditions.
Advocate said in a statement Monday: “We firmly believe that meaningful quality and safety data should be transparent to the public. However, accurately measuring this data can be challenging, and some organizations use limited methodologies that don’t always reflect the quality of care or the varied factors that contribute to patient outcomes.”Even some of the area’s biggest name hospitals earned middling marks. Northwestern Memorial and Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood both got Cs.
Northwestern said in a statement Monday, “We are committed to providing high quality, safe, patient-centered care ... We appreciate the ongoing efforts by Leapfrog to improve the usefulness and accessibility of information for consumers.” Efforts to boost safety also paid off in the latest ratings for St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center in Englewood. In the fall, the South Side hospital was the only one in the state to get an F grade. This time around, it earned a C.
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