St. Barnabas Hospital Gets ‘A’ Grade From Nonprofit

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Leapfrog Group has released its latest hospital safety grade list, which rates 68 medical facilities in New Jersey, including Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston.

On Tuesday, the national nonprofit assigned Saint Barnabas Medical Center an “A” grade for Fall 2017. You can see the full, detailed report about this hospital online 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.

Leapfrog assigns “A,B,C,D and F” letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States. 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.

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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.)

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Includes previous reporting by Tom Davis