Montco Hospital Patient Safety Grades: Suburban, Einstein, Jefferson

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — The latest patient safety grades from the Leapfrog Group have been released, and the results are mixed for local hospitals.

Here's how Montgomery County facilities stacked up. Most were unchanged from the last rankings that were released in November.

A

• Einstein Medical Center Montgomery (A in November)
• Jefferson Abington Hospital (A in November)

B

• Jefferson Lansdale Hospital (B in November)
• Suburban Community Hospital (B in November)

C

• Pottstown Hospital (C in November)

Statewide, 45 hospitals received an A, 17 hospitals received a B, 15 hospitals received a C, and two hospitals received a D grade. Zero hospitals received an F.

The latest ratings reflect care during the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw years of progress in patient safety reversed, according to research from The Leapfrog Group.

The pandemic has had a negative effect on “health care delivery at every level and setting, from staffing shortages to increased infections to the very care patients receive,” according to the Adult Patient Experience at Acute Care Hospitals survey, also released by The Leapfrog Group.

Leapfrog used an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.