‘A’ grade in patient safety for Frankfort hospital

Frankfort, KY (WTVQ) – Frankfort Regional Medical Center was recognized today in the Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. Frankfort Regional Medical Center earned an ‘A’ in the elite national ratings program, recognizing its strong commitment to patient safety.

The Hospital Safety Score is the gold standard rating for patient safety, compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading patient safety experts and administered by The Leapfrog Group, a national, independent nonprofit. The first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, the Hospital Safety Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay.

Frankfort Regional Medical Center received an ‘A’ rating on patient safety from The Leapfrog Group in its Spring 2015 report card – Hospital Safety Scores®.  The score reflects Frankfort Regional’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable medical errors, injuries and infections within the hospital.

The Hospital Safety Score was developed under the guidance of Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel and uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single A, B, C, D, or F score, representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm. Of the 2,523 hospitals issued a Hospital Safety Score, 782 earned an A, 719 earned a B, 859 earned a C, 143 earned a D and 20 earned an F. The Hospital Safety Score is fully transparent, offering a full analysis of the data and methodology used in determining grades on the website.

To view the score for each U.S. hospital, go to www.hospitalsafetyscore.org.