Regions Hospital receives seventh consecutive "Grade A" in patient safety
ST. PAUL, Minn. – May 11, 2015 – Regions earned the highest mark for patient safety by The Leapfrog Group, an independent industry watchdog. It’s the seventh straight reporting period in which Regions has received the top mark.
“Patients come to a hospital trusting they are in a safe place. At Regions Hosptial, providing high-quality, safe care is our top priority. This recognition is validation that our focus on patient safety is making a difference,” said Regions Hospital President and CEO Megan Remark.
Leapfrog assigns A, B, C, D and F grades to hospitals based on a hospital’s ability to prevent errors, injuries and infections. More than 2,500 hospitals were assigned scores with about 31 percent receiving an “A” grade this spring.
Regions was one of 13 Minnesota hospitals to earn an “A” grade and one of only 182 hospitals in the nation to achieve straight “A’s” since the inception of the Hospital Safety Score in June of 2012. To see how Region’s score compares locally and nationally, and to access consumer-friendly tips for patients and their loved ones, visit the Hospital Safety Score website at www.hospitalsafetyscore.org.
About the Hospital Safety Score
The Hospital Safety Score uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single A, B, C, D or F score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm. The Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay.
About The Leapfrog Group
The Hospital Safety Score is an initiative of The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization using the collective leverage of large purchasers of health care to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality and affordability of health care for Americans. The Leapfrog Group was founded in November 2000 with support from the Business Roundtable and national funders and is now independently operated with support from its purchaser and other members.
Regions Hospital
Regions Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center for adults and for children serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin for more than 140 years. A private, nonprofit, teaching hospital, Regions provides outstanding care in women’s health, heart, cancer, surgery, orthopaedics, neuroscience, burn, emergency care, mental illnesses and more. Regions is part of the HealthPartners family of health care companies that serves 1.5 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. Follow Regions Hospital on Twitter/RegionsHospital and Facebook.