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Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Earns a 'C' for Safety From Health-Care Group
Illinois ranked 15th in the country for hospital safety, according to the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit health-care organization.
LAKE FOREST, IL―Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital received a "C" grade for safety from a national health care nonprofit group.
RELATED: Check Out Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital's Full Evaluation
The Leapfrog Group, an organization of employers and health-care providers, released its Spring 2016 hospital safety rankings Monday. Hospitals are graded from A through F based on several factors, such as medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections, to determine a patient's risk of further harm if they visited that facility.
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Of the 2,571 hospitals studied nationwide, 798 earned an A, 639 earned a B, 957 earned a C, 162 earned a D and 15 earned an F.
This is the second consecutive year the Lake Forest hospital's grade has declined after the health-care facility earned A's over a string of evaluation periods. The hospital received a B during the fall of 2015 grading period.
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RELATED: Check Out Leapfrog's Complete State Safety Rankings
According to its evaluation, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital struggled in the categories dealing with preventing infections, as well as the category applying to deaths from serious, treatable surgical complications.
Overall, Illinois ranked 15th in the nation, according to Leapfrog. The group evaluated 115 hospitals in the state, and 50 of them, 43.5 percent, earned an A.
Other hospitals in the area earned the following grades (hospitals in bold italics earned A's):
- Advocate Condell Medical Center, Libertyville: A
- Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington: B
- Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge: A
- AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village: A
- AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates: A
- Loyola Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park: A
- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston: C
- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Glenbrook Hospital, Glenview: C
- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Highland Park: C
- NorthShore University HealhSystem, Skokie: C
- Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights: A
Patch editor By Marc Torrence contributed to this report.
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