Leapfrog assigned grades to about 3,000 U.S. acute care hospitals on how well they prevent medical errors, accidents and infections, according to a written statement. Over 800 hospitals received an A, ...

Cesarean sections can increase the risk of infection, blood clots, longer recovery times and difficulties with future pregnancies for women, yet they still occur at American hospitals at alarmingly ...

Does bigger mean better when it comes to hospital safety? A new grading of U.S. hospitals from the patient safety organization Leapfrog Group suggests hospitals that get high marks on limiting ...

Indiana Regional Medical Center has slipped from an “A” grade in Spring 2022 and “B” grade in Fall 2022 to a “C” grade in the latest Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade survey released Tuesday. The ...

Area hospitals received a wide variety of grades in the Spring 2024 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades issued this week. In the Pennsylvania Mountains Care Network, on a scale from A to F, Punxsutawney ...

Results from the Leapfrog Group‘s newly introduced hospital report card shows nearly half of the 2,652 general hospitals issued a Hospital Safety Score earned a “C” or below. The Hospital Safety Score ...

While hospitals have made progress in improving maternal care outcomes in two of three areas, there is more work to be done on reducing the number of cesarean sections, according to The Leapfrog Group ...