Ohio Hospital Safety Grades Released For Fall 2018

Forty-seven Ohio hospitals received an A grade in hospital safety, according to new Fall 2018 ratings released by the Leapfrog Group on Thursday. The nonprofit group found that of the more than 2,600 hospitals graded in the country, 32 percent earned an A grade.

The Leapfrog Group explains that its rating system is focused entirely on errors, accidents, injuries and infections. The hospital safety grades are released by the nonprofit group twice a year, in the spring and in the fall.

New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Massachusetts and Texas had the highest percentage of hospitals that received an A grade. Ohio was number eight nationally in the hospital safety rankings.

The states with the lowest percentage of hospitals that received an A grade are Connecticut, Nebraska, Washington D.C., Delaware and North Dakota, according to Leapfrog. Washington D.C., Delaware and North Dakota did not have a single hospital that received an A grade.

Here are the Ohio hospitals that were given an 'A' grade by Leapfrog:

• Bethesda Butler Hospital, Hamilton
• Bethesda North Hospital, Cincinnati
• Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay
• Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center, Akron
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
• Euclid Hospital, Euclid
• Hillcrest Hospital, Mayfield Heights
• Lutheran Hospital, Cleveland
• Marymount Hospital, Garfield Heights
• Doctors Hospital of Columbus, Columbus
• Dublin Methodist Hospital, Dublin
• East Liverpool City Hospital, East Liverpool
• Firelands Regional Medical Center, Sandusky
• Genesis Hospital, Zanesville
• Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
• Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware
• Grant Medical Center, Columbus
• Greene Memorial Hospital, Xenia
• Licking Memorial Hospital, Newark
• McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, Oxford
• Memorial Hospital, Marysville
• Mercer County Community Hospital - Coldwater, Coldwater
• Lorain Hospital, Lorain
• St. Anne Hospital, Toledo
• Clermont Hospital, Batavia
• Defiance Hospital, Defiance
• Mercy Hospital Fairfield, Fairfield
• Mercy Medical Center, Canton
• Mount Carmel St. Anne's Hospital, Westerville
• Marion General Hospital, Marion
• O'Bleness Hospital, Athens
• OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, Mansfield
• ProMedica Bay Park Hospital, Oregon
• Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus
• Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge
• Southern Ohio Medical Center, Portsmouth
• Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights
• St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital, Boardman
• St. John Medical Center, Westlake
• St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima
• Summa Health System, Akron Campus, Akron
• Summa Health, Barberton Campus, Barberton
• The Bellevue Hospital, Bellevue
• The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati
• The Ohio State University Hospital East, Columbus
• The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus
• Wilson Health, Sidney

“Health care was an important issue in the 2018 midterm elections, yet both parties are still neglecting the third leading cause of death in America—errors and infections in hospitals,” Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said in a press release. “Every elected official, from city councilors, to senators, to the President, should hold hospitals accountable and support efforts to improve patient safety.”

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 28 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.)

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