New Jersey and Connecticut hospitals fared much better than ones in the Big Apple in the latest Leapfrog report.
New York hospitals rank among the
worst in the nation when it comes to avoiding medical errors, injuries
and infections, while New Jersey is one of the better states for patient
safety, a new report released Tuesday finds.
Some
2,630 hospitals across 50 states were assigned letter grades based on a
range of patient safety measures and ranked based on their percentage
of “A” hospitals, according to Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit
health care ratings organization.
New York came in at No. 47 and was one of five states with the lowest
percentage of "A" hospitals this fall. A total of 142 hospitals were
assessed, and just seven of those (4.93 percent) had a top rating for
safety. None of the top seven were in the city, though, and just one was
on Long Island.
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