Boca Raton Regional Hospital is the recipient of an “A” rating in the Spring 2013 Hospital Safety Score℠, administered by The Leapfrog Group, an independent, national nonprofit organization focused on healthcare safety and accountability.
The Hospital Safety Score, calculated under the guidance of experts from Harvard and Johns Hopkins, uses 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single grade representing a hospital’s overall success in keeping patients safe from infections, injuries, and medical and medication errors. The Spring 2013 update to the Score used information from 2012 and assigned “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” grades to more than 2,500 general hospitals in the United States, of which, only one third earned an “A” grade.
“As evidenced by this latest information, Boca Regional places the highest priority on patient safety, as well as other quality-care indicators, such as Core Measures and patient satisfaction,” said Jerry Fedele, President and CEO of Boca Regional. “This focus has resulted in our material success in establishing and maintaining an environment of care that is ranked as top performing in the country by a host of independent ratings organizations.”