Overall, there has been a 6.3 percent average improvement in hospital performance since 2012, according to Leapfrog, and 48 of 50 states have seen improvement in their mean scores. However, 150 hospitals received a D, 22 received failing grades and four states — Alaska, Idaho, Nebraska and Wyoming, as well as the District of Columbia — have no hospitals with an A grade. Maryland hospitals were not scored due to lack of sufficient publicly available data.
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The following five states had the highest percentage of A hospitals in the most recent Leapfrog scores:
1. Maine — 74 percent
2. Massachusetts — 70 percent
3. South Dakota — 67 percent
4. Illinois — 57 percent
5. Hawaii — 50 percent
Find more information on the Hospital Safety Score and Leapfrog’s methodology here.
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