Leapfrog released its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grades Wednesday, and 10 hospitals in four states received a failing grade.
Rankings and Ratings
The Leapfrog Group released its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grades Wednesday, assigning A through F letter grades to 2,639 hospitals based on 30 evidence-based patient safety measures.
Standard & Poor's Financial Services predicts health insurers selling plans on the ACA individual market will be close, on average, to breaking even this year, if lawmakers don't significantly change the individual market.
Now through May 5, hospitals can preview their Overall Hospital Star Ratings before CMS makes the update public in July, according to AHA News Now.
Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Kennestone Hospital received the Joint Commission Gold Seal Disease-Specific Certification for heart valve, coronary artery bypass surgery and congestive heart failure.
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.). Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is a 1,004-bed integrated system that includes the Davie Medical Center locations in Bermuda Run and Mocksville, N.C., and the not-for-profit Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center. The medical center…
Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.). The 547-bed Loyola University Medical Center includes a Level I trauma center, burn center, transplant center and a 20-bed unit for patients undergoing stem cell transplant. Formerly known as the Foster G. McGaw Hospital,…
Nearly 2,000 children ranging from newborns to 17-year-olds received organ transplants in 2015, and nearly 2,000 children are still on the waitlist, according to HHS' information on organ donation and transplantation.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio). Nationwide Children’s Hospital opened in 1892 with nine beds and has grown to serve about 1.2 million patients annually today. The hospital’s research institute ranks among the top 10 for National Institutes of Health funding…
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Ranked No. 1 among Massachusetts hospitals and No. 3 in the country by U.S. News & World Report for 2016-17, Mass General was the original Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. Founded in 1811, the 999-bed medical…