Lahey Hospital and Medical Center Gets "A" Rating in Hospital Study

BURLINGTON, MA - The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit founded by employers and health-care providers, announced its Fall 2016 hospital safety rankings Monday, a measure of how safe a hospital is for patients.

At the local level, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center received an A grade. The hospital scored a B in the Spring 2016 ratings as well as the Fall 2015 ratings.

Click here to see the full assessment for Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

The safety grade is based on factors, such as how often patients at a given hospital acquire infections or other conditions during their stay, or how well-staffed a hospital's intensive care unit may be.

According to the Leapfrog ranking, Massachusetts' safest hospitals (those receiving "straight A's" over the past three years) are: Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis; Harrington Memorial Hospital, Southbridge; Saint Anne's Hospital, Fall River; Beverly Hospital, Beverly; Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield; Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, Brockton; Holy Family Hospital, Methuen; Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton; Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Boston; and Addison Gilbert Hospital, Gloucester.

You can find a full description of the data and methodology used in determining the grades here.

Alison Bauter contributed to this report.

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