THIBODAUX, LA, June 24, 2014 – Designed to rate how well hospitals protect patients from accidents,
errors, injuries and infections, the latest
Hospital Safety Score
honored Thibodaux Regional Health System with an “A” –
its top grade in patient safety. The Hospital Safety Score is compiled
under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety
and is administered by
The Leapfrog Group
(Leapfrog), an independent industry watchdog. The first and only hospital
safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the
Journal of Patient Safety, the Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information
they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay.
“Safety should come first for our families when we pick a hospital,
because errors and infections are common and deadly,” said Leah
Binder, president & CEO of The Leapfrog Group, which produces the
Hospital Safety Score. “No hospital is perfect, but we congratulate
the Board, clinicians, administration, and staff of Thibodaux Regional
Medical Center for achieving an “A” and showing us that you
made the well-being of you patients your top priority.”
Calculated under the guidance of Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel,
the Hospital Safety 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. More than
2,500 U.S. general hospitals were assigned scores in spring 2014, with
about 32-percent receiving an “A” grade. The Hospital Safety
Score is fully transparent, and its website offers a full analysis of
the data and
methodology
used in determining grades.
To see how Thibodaux Regional’s score compares locally and nationally,
and to access safety tips for patients and their loved ones, visit the
Hospital Safety Score website at
www.hospitalsafetyscore.org. Consumers can also go to
www.hospitalsafetyscore.org
for a free download of the Hospital Safety Score app.
About The Leapfrog Group
The Hospital Safety Score (
www.hospitalsafetyscore.org) is an initiative of The Leapfrog Group (
www.leapfroggroup.org), a national nonprofit organization using the collective leverage of large
purchasers of health care to initiate breakthrough improvements in the
safety, quality and affordability of health care for Americans. The flagship
Leapfrog Hospital Survey allows purchasers to structure their contracts
and purchasing to reward the highest performing hospitals. The Leapfrog
Group was founded in November 2000 with support from the Business Roundtable
and national funders and is now independently operated with support from
its purchaser and other members.