Advocate Sherman Among the Safest Hospitals In Illinois: Report

How safe is your hospital?

An analysis released this week by The Leapfrog Group graded 113 Illinois hospitals on safety, giving 38 an "A" rating.

Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin was among the hospitals to receive an "A" rating. None of the Illinois hospitals got an "F."

The grades are based on data on medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections. The goal is to determine what a patient's risk of further injury or infection is if they visit a certain hospital, according to The Leapfrog Group.

According to the study, more than 1,000 Americans die each day from preventable hospital errors. Hospitals given a B rating by Leapfrog had a 9 percent higher risk of avoidable death than A hospitals. That number jumps to 35 percent in C hospitals.

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The 38 hospitals with A rankings are:

• Advocate BroMenn Medical Center, Normal
• Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove
• Advocate Sherman Hospital, Elgin
• Alton Memorial Hospital, Alton
• Amita Health Adventist Medical Center Hinsdale, Hinsdale
• Amita Health Adventist Medical Center La Grange, La Grange
• Amita Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center Elk Grove Village, Elk Grove Village
• Amita Health St. Alexius Medical Center Hoffman Estates, Hoffman Estates
• Blessing Hospital, Quincy
• Centegra Hospital – McHenry, McHenry
• Centegra Hospital – Woodstock, Woodstock
• Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst
• Good Samaritan Hospital, Mount Vernon
• Graham Hospital, Canton
• Harrisburg Medical Center, Harrisburg
• HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital, Breese
• Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb
• Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, Carbondale
• Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield
• Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, Geneva
• OSF St. James – John W. Albrecht Medical Center
• OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington
• OSF St. Mary Medical Center, Galesburg
• OSF St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Ottawa
• Presence Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago
• Presence St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago
• Presence Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago
• Richland Memorial Hospital, Olney
• Riverside Medical Center, Kankakee
• Rush Oak Park Hospital, Oak Park
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
• Rush-Copley Medical Center, Aurora
• St. Anthony Hospital, Chicago
• Silver Cross Hospital, New Lenox
• St. Mary's Hospital Centralia Illinois, Centralia
• UnityPoint Health – Methodist, Peoria
• University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago
• West Suburban Medical Center, Oak Park

The Leapfrog Group describes itself as "a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system."

Based in Washington, D.C., Leapfrog launched the Hospital Safety Grade rankings in 2012 "to alert consumers to the hazards involved in a hospital stay and help them choose the safest option. We also hoped to galvanize hospitals to make safety the first priority day in and day out,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of Leapfrog. "So far, we’ve been pleased with the increase in public awareness and hospitals’ commitment to solving this terrible problem. But we need to accelerate the pace of change, because too many people are still getting harmed or killed.”

According to the study, the states with the highest percentage of "A" hospitals are Maine, Hawaii, Oregon, Wisconsin and Idaho. This year's rankings put Illinois at No. 23 in the U.S., down from No. 15 last fall.

View grades for all 113 Illinois hospitals included in the rankings here.

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