WASHINGTON - This spring, Monroe Clinic received its seventh "A" safety grade since spring 2015 from the Leapfrog Group.
The nonprofit organization, which releases its biannual Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades based on hospitals' record of patient safety, is located in the District of Columbia and is "committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system," according the group's website.
Using 27 evidence-based measures of patient safety, the grading assigns "A," "B," "C," "D" and "F" letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. and is the nation's only rating focused entirely on errors, accidents, injuries and infections, according to a Leapfrog news release.
Monroe Clinic in Monroe has received an "A" each spring and fall since 2015. SSM Health, which recently acquired ownership of Monroe Clinic, had two Wisconsin hospitals graded by the Leapfrog Group, both of which received an "A" this spring.
Of the 53 Wisconsin hospitals Leapfrog graded this spring, none received an "F" rating. The state ranked 10th out of the 49 states the organization compiled safety grades for in spring 2018, with just under 42 percent of Wisconsin's graded hospitals earning As.
In fall 2017, Wisconsin was sixth with almost 59 percent As.
The Leapfrog Group calculates a safety grade for more than 2,400 general acute-care hospitals for which there is sufficient publicly available data. Because publicly available data is limited for a variety of reasons, Leapfrog is not able to calculate a safety grade for every hospital in the U.S.
The grades are calculated by patient safety experts, are peer reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. They are updated every six months, once in the fall and once in the spring. For more information about the safety grades, as well as individual hospital grades and state rankings, visit www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.
The nonprofit organization, which releases its biannual Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades based on hospitals' record of patient safety, is located in the District of Columbia and is "committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system," according the group's website.
Using 27 evidence-based measures of patient safety, the grading assigns "A," "B," "C," "D" and "F" letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. and is the nation's only rating focused entirely on errors, accidents, injuries and infections, according to a Leapfrog news release.
Monroe Clinic in Monroe has received an "A" each spring and fall since 2015. SSM Health, which recently acquired ownership of Monroe Clinic, had two Wisconsin hospitals graded by the Leapfrog Group, both of which received an "A" this spring.
Of the 53 Wisconsin hospitals Leapfrog graded this spring, none received an "F" rating. The state ranked 10th out of the 49 states the organization compiled safety grades for in spring 2018, with just under 42 percent of Wisconsin's graded hospitals earning As.
In fall 2017, Wisconsin was sixth with almost 59 percent As.
The Leapfrog Group calculates a safety grade for more than 2,400 general acute-care hospitals for which there is sufficient publicly available data. Because publicly available data is limited for a variety of reasons, Leapfrog is not able to calculate a safety grade for every hospital in the U.S.
The grades are calculated by patient safety experts, are peer reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. They are updated every six months, once in the fall and once in the spring. For more information about the safety grades, as well as individual hospital grades and state rankings, visit www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.