Edward earns “A” in Leapfrog Fall 2019 Hospital Safety Grades

Edward Hospital in Naperville earned an A in The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 2019 Hospital Safety Grades. It’s the third straight A for Edward (Spring 2019, Fall 2018), which has registered A’s in eight of the last 12 Hospital Safety Grades dating back to Spring 2014. To see details of Edward’s A grade, visit www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.

The Leapfrog Group is a national organization committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. Leapfrog uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign A, B, C, D or F grade twice a year to 2,600 acute-care hospitals across the country based on their performance in preventing medical errors, infections and other harms among patients in their care.

Edward Hospital was also named a Top General Hospital by The Leapfrog Group in 2017. In addition, Edward-Elmhurst Health, which includes Edward Hospital, Elmhurst Hospital and Linden Oaks Behavioral Health, has been recognized as one of the nation’s 15 Top Health Systems by IBM Watson Health.

To learn more about patient safety and quality of care at Edward Hospital and Edward-Elmhurst Health, visit www.EEHealth.org/patientsafety.