SHAKOPEE, Minn. (April 27, 2018)
– St. Francis Regional Medical Center received an
“A” rating for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group’s spring assessment. The
Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety
and transparency in the U.S. health system. Leapfrog evaluates and awards hospitals
twice annually based on a variety of factors, including practices to prevent
errors, the number of infections or surgical problems, communications between
medical staff and patients and several other criteria. St. Francis is the only hospital in Minnesota
to have earned straight A’s from Leapfrog since the organization began awarding
Hospital Safety Grades.
Nationwide, only 30 percent of hospitals
received an “A” grade and St. Francis is one of only 49 hospitals in the top 2
percent that have consistently received an “A” grade since The Leapfrog Group
began grading hospitals in 2012.
“We’re proud of our accomplishments in
providing safe, high-quality care,” says Sue Miller, vice president of patient
care services at St. Francis Regional Medical Center. “We’ve sustained an ‘A’
rating from Leapfrog for six years, and we continue to improve and set the bar
higher for ourselves year after year to achieve our patient safety goals.”
For the rankings this spring, the Leapfrog
Group assigned "A" to "F" letter grades to 2,479 hospitals
based on their performance on 12 process and structural measures and 15 outcome
measures. The group used data from CMS, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, and
secondary data sources such as the American Hospital Association's Annual
Survey. Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade is one of many sources that
individuals may use to evaluate their healthcare options.
“This is the only national rating of how well
hospitals protect patients from preventable harm and death, such as medical
errors, infections, and injuries,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The
Leapfrog Group. “Receiving an ‘A’ Safety Grade means a hospital is among the
best in the country for preventing these terrible problems and putting their
patients first, 24 hours a day.”
About Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades
The
Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is calculated by top patient safety experts,
peer reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. It uses 30 measures of
publicly available hospital safety data to assign A, B, C, D and F grades to
more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice per year. For more information about the
Safety Grade, as well as individual hospital grades and state rankings, please
visit www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.
About St. Francis Regional Medical Center
St. Francis Regional Medical Center is owned by Allina
Health, HealthPartners Park Nicollet, and Essentia Health. This unique
structure combines the caring and compassion of an award winning community
hospital with the advanced medical technology, specialties, and expertise of
industry-leading health systems. St. Francis provides a full range of
inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services on a collaborative medical
campus with more than 30 affiliated clinics and 450 providers in the community.
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