Date: 11/12/2018
AKRON, Ohio, November 12, 2018 – The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Group, the leading scorecard on hospital safety across the country, announced that it has awarded its top “A” grade to both the Summa Health Akron and Barberton campuses. Of the 2,600 general acute care hospitals nationwide that were studied, 32 percent earned the “A” mark. Summa Health previously had received “C” grades from Leapfrog.
Leapfrog’s methodology, which is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public, is updated every spring and fall. The group looks at how well hospitals score in five categories: Infections; Inpatient Surgery; Medication Safety; Maternity Care; and Inpatient Care Management.
“We believe that every day we provide high-quality, safe, patient-centered care,” said Dr. Cliff Deveny, Summa Health’s president and CEO. “These ratings from Leapfrog bear that out. I couldn’t be prouder of all of our employees who worked so hard to achieve this distinction.”
Summa Health is one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in Ohio. Encompassing a network of hospitals, community health centers, a health plan, a physician-hospital organization, a multi-specialty physician organization, research and the Summa Health Foundation, we are nationally renowned for excellence in patient care and for exceptional approaches to healthcare delivery. Summa’s clinical services are consistently recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (Magnet status), U.S. News and World Report, Thomson Reuters and The Leapfrog Group. For more information, visit summahealth.org or find us on Facebook at facebook.com/summahealth and Twitter, twitter.com/summahealth.
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