Downers Grove, Ill. – The Leapfrog Group today announced five Advocate hospitals earned an A grade for excellence in patient safety. Three Advocate hospitals have achieved straight “A’s” since the national patient safety watchdog began its analysis of safety measures in 2012.
Hospitals recognized with the distinction of straight A’s include Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Advocate https://www.advocatehealth.com/lutheran General Hospital. Advocate Sherman Hospital and Advocate BroMenn Medical Center also received an A grade.
“We’re so proud to be recognized for this meaningful achievement. Patient safety is our top organizational priority and ingrained in our culture at every level,” said Lee Sacks, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer, Advocate Health Care. “Our physicians, nurses and associates take this responsibility extremely seriously and remain committed to ensuring the very best possible outcomes for patients, who deserve nothing less.”
Leapfrog analysts use publicly available data to look at 30 different safety measures and assign grades based on how well hospitals are doing to protect patients from harm. Measurements include the hospital’s ability to prevent errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
More than 2,600 hospitals across the nation are graded, including 113 Illinois hospitals.
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About Advocate Health Care
Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois and one of the largest health care providers in the Midwest. A national leader in population health management, Advocate is one of the largest Accountable Care Organizations in the country. Advocate operates nearly 400 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $686 million in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2015.