Englewood Hospital Gets An A For Safety

ENGLEWOOD, NJ — Englewood Hospital and Medical Center received an A in safety, according to a new list of grades released by The Leapfrog Group Tuesday.

It is the seventh consecutive time the hospital has received an A from the nonprofit. The goal of the rankings is to determine a patient's risk of further injury or infection if they visit a certain hospital. Medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections are taken into account by Leapfrog when calculating the grades.

Leapfrog assigns A, B, C, D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States. Leapfrog explains that the safety grade includes 27 measures that are taken together to produce a single letter grade representing a hospital's overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.

The hospital scored "above average" in several categories, including preventing MRSA infections and bedsores and having speciality-trained doctors care for patients in the intensive care unit.

The hospital did score low regarding encouraging nurses to communicate with patients and on the medical staff's responsiveness.

The group uses performance measures from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (You can read more about the letter grades here.)

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