The Leapfrog Group released its semiannual Hospital Safety Score, which showed continued progress by New Jersey hospitals and health systems to move up the national rankings.
New Jersey ranked 15th nationwide for its scores across 68 hospitals. Twenty-seven of the state’s hospitals earned an “A” grade in the report, representing 39.7 percent of all hospitals. Garden State hospitals showed significant movement to the higher ratings compared with the report’s last release in October 2016. At that time, New Jersey posted 25 A grades, 15 Bs and 25 Cs. In today’s report, New Jersey had 27 hospitals earn an A, with 20 Bs and 18 Cs.
Also today, Leapfrog announced a new tool that aims to calculate the impact of medical errors. It’s intended to allow employers and other healthcare purchasers to estimate the number of avoidable deaths among their covered lives, along with the healthcare cost impacts.
