Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Earns Another 'A' in Hospital Safety

It’s four in a row for Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center (PSMEMC)!

For the fourth consecutive scoring period, PSMEMC received an “A” for how well the medical center protects patients from errors, injuries, accidents and infections, according to The Leapfrog Group, an independent industry quality-assurance organization that publicly rates hospital performance.

The Hospital Safety Score is calculated every six months and is free to patients. Click here to search and compare scores for hospitals in the Chicago area. Click here to review PSMEMC’s score.

The Hospital Safety Score uses national performance measures from the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey and Health Information Technology Supplement, according to Leapfrog.

“We have earned another ‘A’ rating – the best possible – which confirms our unrelenting focus on maintaining patient safety as our highest priority,” said Martin Judd, Regional President and CEO, PSMEMC. “Keeping patients safe is the best way to ensure an exceptional experience for anyone who enters the medical center – and our entire team deserves credit for sustaining this superb level of performance. We encourage patients to do their homework – just as they would research other information – to learn about any health care facility’s patient-safety and quality record.”

Calculated under criteria identified by Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single A, B, C, D or F score. The assessment indicates how well a hospital protects patients from preventable harm and medical errors, such as falls, problems during surgery, medication errors, blood clots, infections and others.