This year marks the 10th in which Leapfrog has assigned letter grades to nearly 3,000 hospitals, using measures to determine how well they protect patients from preventable safety incidents.
“For a long time, the health care community tried to improve safety, but progress stalled,” Leapfrog’s president and CEO Leah Binder said in a release.
“The big difference over this decade is that for the first time, we publicly reported each hospital’s record on patient safety, and that galvanized the kind of change we all hoped for. It’s not enough change, but we are on the right track,” she said.
