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The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation's most influential employers and purchasers of health care, and The Economic Alliance for Michigan, a nonprofit group comprised of some of the state's largest employers and unions, announced the Fall 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades.
The independent grading system assigns "A," "B," "C," "D" and "F" letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. based on their ability to protect patients from avoidable errors, injuries, accidents and infections.
In Michigan, 78 hospitals were graded, and 32 earned an "A," 21 earned a "B," 18 earned a "C," seven earned a "D" and no "F" grades were recorded.
In the area, MidMichigan Medical Center-Midland received a "C" grade this fall, down from the "B" grade it received in the spring. McLaren Bay in Bay City also received a "C" while McLaren Central Michigan in Mount Pleasant received an "A."
"Choosing a hospital with a higher safety grade is vital because hospital mistakes are costly for patients and employers," said Bret Jackson, president of EAM. "The EAM and our members are committed to collaborating with hospitals across the state to ensure patients are receiving the safest possible care."
Other key highlights for the state:
For fall 2019, Michigan ranked 13th in the country for percentage of "A" grades with 41.03 percent of the state's graded hospitals receiving an "A." This is an 8.93 percent increase from spring 2019.
Two hospitals have earned straight "A's" since the inception of the grades in 2012: DMC Huron Valley-Sinai in Commerce Township and Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor.
Three hospital systems saw all their hospitals with either an "A" or "B" grade:
Henry Ford Health System
Spectrum Health
Trinity Health
This marking period had the highest number of "A" grades with 32 hospitals (tie with fall 2018) and "D" grades with seven hospitals.
The release of this fall's Hospital Safety Grades coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine's groundbreaking report, To Err Is Human, which revealed nearly 100,000 lives are lost every year due to preventable medical errors. Subsequent reports estimate that number may be twice as high.
"Twenty years after To Err Is Human, we are still devastated by tens of thousands of needless deaths every year from medical errors," said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. "We are seeing progress, with 45,000 fewer deaths from the hazards included in the Safety Grade. Still, much more needs to be done. Transparency is the first step."
Binder cited an analysis earlier this year by the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality that found 45,000 fewer deaths than a 2016 analysis, based on the prevalence of safety problems in hospitals graded by The Leapfrog Group.
Developed under the guidance of a National Expert Panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade's methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.
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