Two hospitals in the Hartford area were among a half dozen statewide that received “A” grades for safety from The Leapfrog Group this week.
Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system, assigns A, B, C, D and F letter grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals biannually and says it’s considered the gold standard measure of patient safety in the United States.
Receiving A’s in Connecticut were St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford; UConn Health Center/John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington; Griffin Hospital in Derby; and Stamford, Greenwich and Sharon hospitals. To see grades for all the state hospitals, visit this site.
Of the 27 hospitals evaluated in Connecticut, the six receiving A’s ranked the state in a tie for 36th nationally based on 22.2 percent of hospitals receiving the top grade.
Hawaii ranked first, with 66.7 percent of its hospitals getting an A. Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota and Washington, D.C., ranked last, with no hospitals getting an A.
