Northern Westchester Hospital Receives Grade 'A' Scoring

From Northern Westchester Hospital:

Northern Westchester Hospital is the only hospital in the Hudson Valley to receive an “A” grade for Patient Safety in Leapfrog’s Spring 2016 Hospital Safety Score.

NW Hospital also received “A” Grades in the Spring and Fall 2015 Safety Scores.

Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) received a third consecutive ‘A’ grade for patient safety from the independent hospital watchdog The Leapfrog Group, which released national results showing shifts among many hospitals on the A, B, C, D and F grades rating them on errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. NWH is the only hospital in the Hudson Valley to receive an A grade in this elite national ratings program, recognizing its strong commitment to patient safety.

The Hospital Safety Score, which is a public service provided by The Leapfrog Group, a national, independent nonprofit organization “committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system,” has handed out its latest hospital safety grades for the spring of 2016.

“Safety, quality and patient and family engagement go hand-in-hand, and Northern Westchester Hospital is committed to providing patients the highest quality and safest care possible. Our staff members are empowered to ensure our patients are safe when they are in our care, and our approach to patient-centered process design and governance gives each staff member a voice which enables us to continuously improve on all aspects of patient safety,” said Joel Seligman, President & CEO, Northern Westchester Hospital.

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Score is the first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, is free to the public and is designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay. The Leapfrog Group assigned scores to more than 2,500 hospitals nationwide, including 143 hospitals in New York.

Developed under the guidance of Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single A, B, C, D, or F score, representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm.

The full list of hospitals and grades can be seen here.

About Northern Westchester Hospital

Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH), a proud member of Northwell Health (formerly North Shore-LIJ Health System), provides quality, patient-centered care that is close to home through a unique combination of medical expertise, leading-edge technology, and a commitment to humanity. Over 650 highly-skilled physicians, state-of-the-art technology and professional staff of caregivers are all in place to ensure that you and your family receive treatment in a caring, respectful and nurturing environment.

NWH has established extensive internal quality measurements that surpass the standards defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) National Hospital Quality Measures. Our high quality standards help to ensure that the treatment you receive at NWH is among the best in the nation. For more information, please visit here and connect with us on Facebook.

About Northwell Health

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer. With 21 hospitals and nearly 450 outpatient practices, we serve 8 million people in the metro New York and beyond. Our 61,000 employees work to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institute. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and the School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. And we offer health insurance through CareConnect. For information on our services in more than 100 medical specialties, visit here.