Trio of region’s hospitals receive top marks in patient safety report

Three hospitals in Northern Colorado and the Boulder Valley received a grade of “A” for patient safety, according to the Spring 2015 Hospital Safety Score report recently released by The Leapfrog Group, a national independent nonprofit organization that grades hospitals on how they protect patients from errors, injuries and infections.

SCL Health’s Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, and Banner Health’s McKee Medical Center in Loveland and North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, received top marks, according to the report.

Centura Health’s Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville and UCHealth’s Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, received “B’s.” Boulder Community Foothills Hospital in Boulder, Longmont United Hospital in Longmont and UCHealth’s Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland received “C’s.” None of the hospitals in the region received grades of “D” or “F.”

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According to Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog, the score uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm.

The scores use information provided by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey and Health Information Technology Supplement.

See more on the details of the study online at http://www.hospitalsafetyscore.org.