St. Luke’s Upper Bucks Campus has earned an A grade for safety from the Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization that evaluates health care quality, writes Jeff Werner for the Patch.
The newly released Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades awarded the top grade to all eligible legacy St. Luke’s acute care hospitals, including the one in Quakertown.
“You know St. Luke’s is truly awesome because everyone is saying it,” said Donna Sabol, St. Luke’s Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer. “This month it’s Leapfrog giving St. Luke’s A grades. Last month it was the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which ranked St. Luke’s the No. 1 health system in the country for quality and safety, ahead of the nationally renowned institutions Houston Methodist and the Mayo Clinic, which rounded out the top three.”
Hospitals across the country are evaluated twice a year, in spring and fall, by the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns letter grades from A to F based on how effectively they prevent medical errors, infections and other patient harms.
Grand View Hospital in Perkasie, part of St. Luke’s since July, received a B rating.
Read more about the score from Leapfrog Group awarded to St. Luke’s Upper Bucks Campus in the Patch.
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