HOUSTON – November 15, 2024 – The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of healthcare, driven in the Houston metroplex by the Houston Business Coalition on Health (HBCH), announced the fall 2024 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. Of the 43 hospitals in the Houston area that were scored, 15 earned an A, 15 a B, and 13 a C.
HBCH serves as the Regional Leader in Houston for The Leapfrog Group. General hospitals earn a safety grade based on more than 30 national performance measures reflecting how well the organization protects patients from medical errors, accidents, injuries, and infections. The better the safety grade, the less likely there is a severe event from a hospital stay.
“Preventable medical errors happen across the country far too often, including in our own community,” said Chris Skisak, PhD, HBCH executive director. “Data from Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care finds that there is no correlation between price and quality. As such, employers should encourage their employees to seek services at hospitals that provide safe and high-quality care.”
HBCH commends Houston Methodist Hospital as it is the only health system in which every one of its hospitals achieved an A grade over the last three years.
The Leapfrog Group has a more than 10-year history of assigning letter grades to general hospitals throughout the US, based on a hospital’s ability to prevent medical errors and harm to patients. The grading system is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Hospital Safety Grade results are based on more than 30 national performance measures and are updated each fall and spring.
Detailed hospital performance information, including patient experience and safety measures, as well as grades for individual hospitals searchable by states and localities is available at HospitalSafetyGrade.org.
About The Leapfrog Group
Founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is an independent national nonprofit organization driving a movement for giant leaps for patient safety. Among its initiatives, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade was launched in 2012 and assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety, helping consumers protect themselves and their families from errors, injuries, accidents and infections. It is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospital prevention of medical errors and harm to patients. It is fully transparent and free to the public, and grades are updated biannually in the fall and in the spring. To look up your hospital’s Safety Grade, please visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org.
About Houston Business Coalition on Health
The nonprofit Houston Business Coalition on Health is the leading resource for Houston employers and their health services providers dedicated to providing health benefits at a sustainable cost while improving the quality and employee experience of their delivery through effective benefits design. With 60 members, HBCH represents approximately 500,000 local and more than 1 million national employer-sponsored lives. HBCH a member of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. For additional information visit our website houstonbch.org and follow on LinkedIn.
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