How Did Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak Rank in Safety?

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The Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score rankings used 28 measures to determine a grade for hospitals that represents its overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.

As many as 440,000 people a year die each year from hospital errors, injuries, accidents and infections, according to The Leapfrog Group, which pulled data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey and Health Information Technology Supplement.

Hospitals in Michigan are, collectively, the 21st safest in the country. Eighty hospitals were ranked, and 19 — or 23.8 percent of them — received A ratings, The A-rated hospitals were among 773 nationwide.

Eight Metro Detroit hospitals got the top based on national performance measures from the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, 12 scored a B, eight got a C and one got an F.

Below are ranked hospitals in the Detroit Metro area. Click on the link to find out more about where they did well and where they faltered.

A Grade

• Beaumont Hospital – Troy
• Providence Park Hospital, Novi
• St. John River Hospital, Detroit
• St. John Hospital & Medical Center, Detroit
• Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center
• Providence Hospital, Southfield
• St. Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia
• Huron Valley – Sinai Hospital,Commerce Township

B Grade

• Beaumont Hospital – Grosse Pointe
• Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak
• Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital
• Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals, Clinton Township
• St. Joseph Mercy – Chelsea
• McLaren – Oakland, Pontiac
• Oakwood Annapolis Hospital, Wayne
• Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit
• St. John Macomb Hospital, Warren
• St. John Oakland Hospital, Madison Heights
• St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Pontiac
• McLaren Flint

C Grade

• Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital
• Oakwood Southshore Medical Center, Trenton
• Botsford Hospital, Farmington Hills
• Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center – Dearborn
• Harper-Hutzel Hospital, Detroit
• Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
• McLaren Macomb, Mount Clemens
• St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital, Howell

F Grade

• Hurley Medical Center, Flint