Wednesday, November 1, 2017

New York Hospitals Rank Among Worst in Nation for Patient Safety, Study Finds



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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Source: NBC News 4 NY (via the Empire Report)

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