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Providence Holy Cross Hospital Receives ‘A’ Rating For Safety

Providence Holy Cross Hospital received an “A” grade for superior safety from Leapfrog, a nonprofit organization committed to quality and safety in the nation’s hospitals, officials said Tuesday.

The independent Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade measures achievements in protecting patients from harm and in providing safer health care. Grades are given in spring and fall each year, according to officials.
“Now more than ever, the safety of our patients and all who enter our hospital is our top priority,” said Dr. Bernard Klein, M.D., chief executive of the Mission Hills hospital. “Ensuring a safe environment of care is a daily focus and we hold one another accountable for proactively identifying potential hazards or missteps and creating solutions.”
Steve Tanner, the hospital’s director of clinical quality, credited a multidisciplinary effort to prevent infections, collaborative initiatives led by nurse leaders.
“When a hospital-acquired infection does occur, there is an analysis conducted to determine what may have contributed to it and how other infections can be prevented in the future,” Tanner said adding that Holy Cross is supported by expertise from parent organization Providence. “Outcomes are monitored by hospital quality committees, medical staff quality committees, regional leadership and the community board — an impressive achievement by a lot of dedicated people.”
The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers.

The safety grade assigns an ‘A’, B ‘C’, ‘D or ‘F’ grade to all general hospitals across the country based on their performances in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other harm to patients in their care, according to officials.
Developed under the guidance of a national expert panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. acute-care hospitals twice per year.

The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public, according to the organization.


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Providence Holy Cross Hospital Receives ‘A’ Rating For Safety

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