Saint Peter's Hospital Receives 'A' Grade For Patient Safety

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Saint Peter's University Hospital received an 'A' grade in Leapfrog's Hospital Safety Grades for fall of 2020.

Saint Peter's is the only Middlesex County hospital to receive an A grade for safety.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick received a “B” rating from the group. You can see the Leapfrog grades here: https://www.hospitalsafetygrad...

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades look at publicly-available measures of safety such as the hospital's performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other issues related to patients in their care.

Leapfrog uses 27 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. acute-care hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade's methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent with results free and available to the public. The Safety Grade assigns an 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' or 'F' grade to all general hospitals across the country and is updated every six months

Saint Peter's University Hospital is a 478-bed acute-care teaching hospital sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen. Saint Peter's has a children's hospital and a regional perinatal center, and is a regional specialist in diabetes, gastroenterology, head and neck surgery, oncology, orthopedics and women's services.