Leapfrog Releases ‘Grade’ For Clara Maass Hospital In Belleville

BELLEVILLE, NJ — Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville improved to a “B” rating on the Leapfrog Group’s latest round of hospital safety grades.

On Thursday, the nonprofit watchdog group announced its latest round of biannual hospital grades. The group assigned an "A," "B," "C," "D," or "F" rating to more than 2,700 general acute-care hospitals in the U.S., based on their ability to “protect patients from errors, accidents and injuries.” Learn more about the methodology here.

Clara Maass Medical Center scored a “B” rating for its spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. See the full rating here.

Previous grades for Clara Maass include:

• Fall 2020 – C
• Spring 2020 – C
• Fall 2019 – B
• Spring 2019 – A
• Fall 2018 – A
• Spring 2018 - A

Nationwide, 33 percent of hospitals received an "A," 24 percent received a "B," 35 percent received a "C," 7 percent received a "D," and less than 1 percent received an "F" in the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades.

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