Mercy Hospital Joplin has received a top “A” rating from the Leapfrog Group, which has announced its fall 2016 release of the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. The program assigns letter grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals bi-annually and is the gold standard measure of patient safety in the United States. Of the 2,633 hospitals evaluated, 844 earned an A.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is calculated by top patient safety experts, peer reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Mercy Hospital Joplin also received an A grade in fall 2015.
The safety grade uses 30 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. Patients can see the scores of hospitals across the country by visiting the Hospital Safety Score website, which also includes consumer-friendly tips for patients and loved ones visiting the hospital.