News: Leapfrog adds new measures, releases fall 2021 report
The fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade report has been released, assigning grades to 2,901 hospitals. The grades come from hospitals’ performance on over 30 evidence-based measures of patient safety. For the first time, post-operative sepsis, blood leakage, and kidney injury were included in those measures.
For grades:
- 32% of hospitals received an A
- 26% of hospitals received a B
- 35% of hospitals received a C
- 7% of hospitals received a D
- <1% of hospitals received an F
The five states with the highest number of grade A hospitals were:
- Colorado
- Idaho
- Massachusetts
- North Carolina
- Virginia
Notably, there were no A-graded hospitals in Delaware, North Dakota, and Washington D.C. Geographic breakdowns hint that some areas of the country have significant patient safety issues with certain cities and areas showing a higher concentration of low scoring hospitals.
In terms of the new grading factor of post-operative sepsis, hospitals received a score representing the number of surgical patients who experienced sepsis infection for every 1,000 who had surgery. The worst score received at 9.72, meanwhile the best was 2.31.
Editor’s note: The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade report can be found here. To read more about publicly reported quality data and Leapfrog specifically, click here.