The Leapfrog Group’s fall 2019 Hospital Safety Grades, announced today, highlight progress in bringing patient safety into the sunlight and demonstrate improvement from a problem first made prominent in a landmark report released 20 years ago.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is a bi-annual grading assigning “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” and “F” letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. It is the nation’s only rating focused entirely on patient safety—preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
The release of updated Safety Grades this fall coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM)[i] groundbreaking report, To Err Is Human, which revealed nearly 100,000 lives are lost every year due to preventable medical errors. Subsequent research suggests the number may be twice as high.
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Related: PRMC dropped from A to C. Click HERE to see how our area hospitals scored.
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Wow! I wouldn't have thought they were that good!
ReplyDeleteYou can blame that on the Board of Directors for appointing Steve E. Leonard as their President and CEO as well as the previous President Peggy Naleppa. Do you realize Steve Leonard is making over $700,000 a year? That's right, close to $1 Million dollars a year!!
ReplyDeleteIt's no wonder PRMC is in trouble. The beds went from over 800 to around 150 beds while Peggy Naleppa was the president but her Salary didn't go down. Many PRMC employees lost their jobs and the ones that stayed had to be reassigned or had to reapply for another job at lesser pay thanks to Peggy.
Sadly they chose this clown Steve Leonard with minimal to no experience and gave him a massive pay increase. The Board of Directors at PRMC are Worthless. If I remember correctly Libtard Bill McCain was a member of the Board of Directors. Speaks volumes.
I have a tattoo on my chest that says "If I am unconscious ship me to Shock Trauma in Baltimore" I will never have surgery at PRMC again.
ReplyDeleteDitto.
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ReplyDeleteI have a tattoo on my chest that says "If I am unconscious ship me to Shock Trauma in Baltimore" I will never have surgery at PRMC again.
November 25, 2019 at 12:00 PM
That could very well be a life-saving decision.