Frankfort Regional Medical Center received an ‘A’ rating on patient safety from The Leapfrog Group in its Spring 2015 report card - Hospital Safety Scores®. The score reflects Frankfort Regional’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable medical errors, injuries and infections within the hospital.
“Receiving an ‘A’ from Leapfrog shows that our physicians and staff are consistently providing a safe environment of care for our patients,” said Chip Peal, Chief Executive Officer. “It places us among the best hospitals in America in this category, and it represents the commitment we have to the communities we serve.”
The Hospital Safety Score was developed under the guidance of Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel and 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 April 2015, with about 31 percent receiving an A grade. Forty-eight hospitals in Kentucky received a score, with 10 hospitals receiving an A grade. Leapfrog does not grade specialty or pediatric hospitals. The Hospital Safety Score is fully transparent, offering a full analysis of the data and methodology used in determining grades on the website.
To view the score for each U.S. hospital, go to www.hospitalsafetyscore.org.