Eleven hospitals and medical facilities around the city got poor grades for patient safety.
and Brooklyn hospitals in Brooklyn; Flushing hospital in Queens; three facilities run by Montefiore Medical Center — Einstein, Moses and Wakefield campuses — in the Bronx and BronxCare Health System.
“This nationally recognized report confirms what we and tens of thousands of people in Brooklyn already know: Maimonides Hospital is a failing disaster that provides horrible service and, top to bottom needs, new leadership,” said Mendy Reiner, co-founder of Save Maimonides. The report marks the 10th anniversary of the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns a letter grade to nearly 3,000 U.S. hospitals based on how well they protect patients from preventable medical errors, accidents, injuries, and infections.
“For five of the outcome measures that can be tracked, these improvements saved an estimated more than 16,000 lives over the 10-year period,” Leapfrog said.Incidents of falls and trauma and cases of objects left in a body after surgery plummeted by 25%, Leapfrog said.
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