RELATED: Leapfrog report highlights hospitals' patient communications, care transition shortcomingsįurther, Leapfrog ratings released earlier this year did not include any survey results or outcome data that were compiled following the onset of COVID-19.Īlthough this is still the case for the majority of the data, Leapfrog’s scoring methodology document indicates that “all five infection measures included in the Safety Grade contain one quarter of 2020 data (7/1/20 – 9/30-20) in addition to three quarters of 2019 data." This increases the total number of individual measures considered in a hospital’s ranking to 31. However, the independent watchdog’s newest ranking saw some updates in scope and timeliness.įor the former, Leapfrog has now integrated the CMS Medicare Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) 90 measure, a composite of 10 outcomes including new additions like postoperative sepsis and in-hospital fall with hip fracture. Leapfrog’s grading methods generally follow the same process from report to report. That list of high-performers has now dwindled to 23, with Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Memorial Hospital Miramar and Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital having lost their spots on the honor roll. The spring’s ratings highlighted 27 “Straight A” hospitals that had consistently received Leapfrog’s highest rating since the launch of its reports.
Now we have more information on more hospitals than ever before, so people can protect themselves and their families. “It is critical that all hospitals put patient safety first. “As the pandemic continues, we all have heightened awareness of the importance of hospitals in our communities and in our lives,” Binder said in a statement. On the other hand, she said four other measures-computerized physician order entry, bar code medication administration, Clostridium difficile and death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable conditions-saw significant improvements across the board. RELATED: Leapfrog safety ratings highlight top performers' COVID-19 prevention measuresĪdditionally, Leapfrog President and CEO Leah Binder told Fierce Healthcare that two outcome measures-central line bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus-saw statistically significant decreases across the full sample of 2,901 hospitals since the spring rankings. The most recent safety grades suggest “significant variation” across regions and individual facilities, Leapfrog said, underscoring the need for patient tools to review hospital performance when seeking care. North Dakota, Delaware and Washington, D.C., each did not have a single hospital receive the top mark. Four states saw more than 50% of their hospitals receive an A rating: Virginia (56.2%), North Carolina (55.1%), Idaho (53.9%) and Massachusetts (51.7%).
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