Mass. Hospital Safety Grades: Where Does Norwood Hospital Stand?

NORWOOD, MA — How safe is Norwood Hostpial? New grades released Tuesday by The Leapfrog Group will tell you just that. The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit founded by employers and healthcare providers, ranked 60 Massachusetts hospitals as part of its Fall 2017 safety grades.

The hospitals were given a letter grade from A through F based on several factors. More than half of the 60 Massachusetts hospitals that were graded - 33 - received an A. None received a grade lower than a C.

Norwood Hospital received a B and is ranked 42nd in the state for safety.

Leapfrog explains that the safety grade includes 27 measures that are taken together to produce a single letter grade representing a hospital's overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors. The group uses performance measures from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (You can read more about the letter grades here.)

Medical errors, accidents, injuries, and infections are taken into account by Leapfrog when calculating the grades. The goal of the rankings is to determine a patient's risk of further injury or infection if they visit a certain hospital.

Click here to see the full list and rankings.

Alex Newman contributed to this report.

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