Delta, CO, April 29, 2016 – Delta Health, a 49 bed district hospital has received its third patient safety “A” in the past four years from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national non-profit run by employers and other larger purchasers of health benefits. It is the only hospital in the region to receive a patient safety “A”.
The Leapfrog Group released the spring 2016 update to the Hospital Safety Score, grading over 2,500 hospitals nationally on how well they protect their patients from errors, accidents, injuries and infections. This year’s patient safety score also highlights newly-added patient measures show to have a relationship to improved patient safety outcomes. And, for the first time, the score includes two new infection measures for MRSA bacteria and C. difficile.
An analysis led by Matt Austin, Ph.D. of the Armstrong Institute of Patient Safety and Quality at John Hopkins University, found that 33,439 lives could be saved each if year if all hospitals had the same performance as those receiving an “A”.
“Delta Health is very proud of being awarded an “A” from The Leapfrog Group for the third time in the past four years. The safety score demonstrates our level of commitment and service to our patients and Delta County families,” stated CEO Jason Cleckler.
(To editors/reporters) In comparison, other Western Slope hospitals rated by The Leapfrog Group were: (see www.hospitalsafetyscore.org).
Calculated under the guidance of The Leapfrog Group’s nine-member Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from infections, injuries and medical and medication errors. The panel includes: John Birkmeyer (University of Michigan), Ashish Jha (Harvard University), Lucian Leape (Harvard University), Arnold Millstein (Stanford University), Peter Pronovost (John Hopkins University), Patrick Romano (university of California Davis), Sara Singer (Harvard University), Tim Vogus (Vanderbilt University) and Robert Wachter (University of California, San Francisco).
Delta Health Scores an A On Patient Safety
Delta Health is a non-profit, 49 bed district hospital serving Delta County families for the past 100 years.
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For Additional Information Contact: Patti Kalahar, Manager of Education/Marketing at Delta Health (970) 874-2291 pkalahar@deltahealthco.org.
About the Leapfrog Group
The Leapfrog Group is a national non-profit organization using the collective leverage of large purchases of health care to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality and affordability of health care in 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.
