Serious complications that occur post-surgery and practices set in place to prevent issues are factors the Leapfrog Group measures in grading the nation's hospitals.
The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization, has released its Hospital Safety Grades (formerly known as Hospital Safety Scores), which are assigned to nearly 3,000 general acute-care hospitals across the nation twice annually. The group uses more than 30 national performance measures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and information from other supplemental data sources, according to its website.
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