The Leapfrog Group, a national heath-care safety watchdog group, has released its Spring 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which assigns a letter grade to every hospital in the U.S. based on more than 30 measures of patient safety, including preventable errors, accidents, injuries, and infections. The newest rankings show that the pandemic has caused significant declines in several measures among many hospitals; Leapfrog explores worsening inpatient hospital experiences during the pandemic in a supplementary report. Some rural hospitals say they're having a hard time serving patients adequately because they're not able to fully access federal pandemic relief. Look up your local hospital's safety grade here.
Meanwhile, the Chartis Center for Rural Health, operated by the Chartis Group, has released its newest ranking of the top 20 and top 100 Critical Access Hospitals in the U.S., as well as the top 100 rural and community hospitals. The rankings are based on Chartis' Hospital Strength Index, which considers performance based on 50 rural-relevant factors in eight broad market-, value-, and finance-based categories. Chartis also named the top 20 hospitals for quality (based on its percentile rank of rural-relevant process of care measures), and another top 20 for patient satisfaction ratings. The National Rural Health Association will recognize the top 20 critical access hospitals during its Critical Access Hospital Conference in September.
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