Georgia Hospital Safety Grades Released For Fall 2018
ATLANTA, GA — Twenty-six Georgia hospitals received an A grade in hospital safety, according to new Fall 2018 ratings released by the Leapfrog Group on Thursday. The nonprofit group found that of the more than 2,600 hospitals graded in the country, 32 percent earned an A grade.
Another 17 Georgia hospitals received a B grade, while 23 received a C, and nine were given a D grade. No hospitals in the state received an F grade.
The Leapfrog Group explains that its rating system is focused entirely on errors, accidents, injuries and infections. The hospital safety grades are released by the nonprofit group twice a year, in the spring and in the fall.
New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Massachusetts and Texas had the highest percentage of hospitals that received an A grade. The states with the lowest percentage of hospitals that received an A grade are Connecticut, Nebraska, Washington D.C., Delaware and North Dakota, according to Leapfrog. Washington D.C., Delaware and North Dakota did not have a single hospital that received an A grade.
Here are the grades Georgia hospitals were given by the Leapfrog Group:
A grades
Cartersville Medical Center, Cartersville
Coffee Regional Medical Center, Douglas
Coliseum Medical Centers, Macon
Coliseum Northside Hospital, Macon
Colquitt Regional Medical Center, Moultrie
Eastside Medical Center, Snellville
Emory St. Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta
Fairview Park Hospital, Dublin
Gordon Hospital, Calhoun
Meadows Regional Medical Center, Vidalia
Perry Hospital, Perry
Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, Americus
Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside, Columbus
Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta
Piedmont Mountainside Hospital, Jasper
Piedmont Newnan Hospital, Newnan
Piedmont Newton Hospital, Covington
Tanner Medical Center of Carrollton, Carrollton
Tift Regional Medical Center, Tifton
Union General Hospital, Blairsville
University Hospital, Augusta
Wellstar Douglas Hospital, Douglasville
Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, Marietta
Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center, Lagrange
B grades
Candler Hospital, Savannah
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta
Floyd Medical Center, Rome
Houston Medical Center, Warner Robins
Memorial Satilla Health, Waycross
Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville
Northside Forsyth Hospital, Cumming
Northside Hospital Cherokee, Canton
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany
Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown, Columbus
Piedmont Fayette Hospital, Fayetteville
St. Joseph's Hospital, Savannah
Stephens County Hospital, Toccoa
Wellstar Cobb Hospital, Austell
Wellstar Paulding Hospital, Hiram
C grades
Augusta University Medical Center, Augusta
Crisp Regional Hospital, Cordele
East Georgia Regional Medical Center, Statesboro
Emory Decatur Hospital, Decatur
Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta
Gwinnett Medical Center - Duluth, Duluth
Gwinnett Medical Center Lawrenceville, Lawrenceville
Habersham Medical Center, Demorest
Hamilton Medical Center, Dalton
Memorial Hospital and Manor, Bainbridge
Navicent Health Baldwin, Milledgeville
North Fulton Hospital, Roswell
Northside Hospital, Atlanta
Piedmont Henry Hospital, Stockbridge
Piedmont Rockdale Hospital, Conyers
South Georgia Medical Center, Valdosta
Southeast Georgia Health System - Brunswick Campus, Brunswick
Southern Regional Medical Center, Riverdale
St. Francis Health, LLC, Columbus
Upson Regional Medical Center, Thomaston
WellStar Spalding Regional Hospital, Griffin
D grades
Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta
Atlanta Medical Center South Campus, East Point
Doctors Hospital of Augusta, Augusta
Emory Hillandale Hospital, Lithonia
Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Johns Creek
Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation, Atlanta
John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital, Thomasville
Piedmont Walton, Monroe
St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital, Lavonia
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"Health care was an important issue in the 2018 midterm elections, yet both parties are still neglecting the third leading cause of death in America—errors and infections in hospitals," Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said in a press release. "Every elected official, from city councilors, to senators, to the President, should hold hospitals accountable and support efforts to improve patient safety."
Leapfrog assigns A,B,C,D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States. Leapfrog explains that the safety grade includes 28 measures that are taken together to "produce a single letter grade representing a hospital's overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors."
The group uses performance measures from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (You can read more about the letter grades here.)
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