St. Joseph Mercy Livingston gets top grade for patient safety

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Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which assigns A, B, C, D and F letter grades to hospitals nationwide for patient safety, awarded St. Joseph Mercy Livingston with an “A” ranking for Fall 2016.

“Quality and patient safety are paramount in everything we do,” said John O’Malley, president of St. Joseph Mercy Livingston. “In every unit and in every department, we are committed to maintaining the highest standard of care for our patients.”

In the area of clinical quality and patient safety, St. Joseph Mercy Livingston has pursued a number of initiatives in recent years that contributed to the “A” rating. These initiatives include:

• An increase in ICU physician coverage

• Early recognition and management of sepsis

• Hand Hygiene improvement strategies

• Fall prevention strategies for surgical patients

• Physician communication improvements around medications and discharge planning

Developed under the guidance of an expert panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 30 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign A, B, C, D and F grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice per year. It is calculated by top patient safety experts, peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public.

To see St. Joseph Mercy Livingston’s full grade, please visit www.hospitalsafetygrade.org/.

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