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Posted 6/11/2012 1:23 PM (GMT 0)
What is the Hospital Safety Score?

The Hospital Safety Score is an A, B, C, D, or F letter grade reflecting how safe hospitals are for patients. For the first time ever, this score empowers you to make informed decisions about the safety of your hospital care.

More than 180,000 people die every year from hospital infections, injuries, and errors

A Medicare patient has a one-in-four chance of experiencing injury, harm or death when admitted to a hospital

Today alone, 493 people will die because of a preventable hospital error
hospitalsafetyscore.org/


Mine came in with an "A"
Posted 6/11/2012 1:33 PM (GMT 0)
My hospital, which I have had a total of 12 operations in, and the one my uro practices at, comes in at "A". Wasn't surprised, every year since I have lived here, they win the award for the "Best Patient Care in South Carolina".

david in sc
Posted 6/11/2012 2:11 PM (GMT 0)
I guess I am lucky to have survived my surgery, my hospital only got a C, but so did every other hospital in Birmingham. This kind of makes me wonder what criteria was used for this scoring system and what was the rating company's intentions?

Terry

The Water Guy

Alive and still kicking in Alabama.

Posted 6/11/2012 2:23 PM (GMT 0)
Methodology

The Hospital Safety Score uses national performance measures from the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to produce a single score representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.

In addition, secondary data from the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey was used to give hospitals as much credit as possible toward their safety score. The Hospital Safety Score includes 26 measures, all currently in use by national measurement and reporting programs.
More Here: hospitalsafetyscore.org/about-the-score/methodology.html
Posted 6/11/2012 2:38 PM (GMT 0)
The last two I had surgeries at were a C. I remember being wheeled in to the O R for my RRP and thinking, jeez, this place hasn't been updated since the 60's...needs paint too. Thanking my lucky stars...
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