Rhode Island has second-safest hospitals in US in Leapfrog rankings
Miriam Hospital and Newport Hospital have earned five straight A’s from Leapfrog’s hospital safety report
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- Since 2022, Rhode Island has jumped from 16th to second in the US for hospital safety.
- More than half of Rhode Island’s hospitals earned an A in Leapfrog’s twice-yearly report.
- Some hospitals, like Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, have struggled to improve their scores.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s hospitals rank as the second-safest in the country, according to a new report by Leapfrog, a nonprofit that rates hospital safety.
More than half the hospitals in the state earned an “A” grade from the nonprofit, raising Rhode Island’s rank from seventh to second place in the United States. Rhode Island has made a marked improvement since 2022 and 2023, when it ranked between 13th and 16th in Leapfrog’s assessments.
The hospitals’ grades this spring were:
The remaining hospital in Rhode Island, Women & Infants, was not included in Leapfrog’s assessment.
Strong showing for Brown University Health hospitals
A strong performance by hospitals in Brown University Health’s system has helped Rhode Island improve its score. Miriam and Newport hospitals both have earned five straight A’s. Leapfrog grades hospitals twice a year, in spring and fall.
Sarah Frost, chief of hospital operations at Brown University Health and president of Rhode Island Hospital, said the scores demonstrate the health system’s dedication to excellence.
“I’m truly grateful to our care teams for the exceptional work they do every single day for our patients,” Frost said in a statement.
Saint Anne’s Hospital, which is based in Fall River, Massachusetts, and recently became part of Brown University Health, also earned an A this spring.
Which hospitals have not scored well?
However, some of the hospitals in the list have struggled in Leapfrog’s assessments. Kent Hospital in Warwick last earned an A the spring of 2022. Our Lady of Fatima and Roger Williams Medical Center, two financially beleaguered institutions owned by CharterCARE that are in the process of being bought by Georgia-based The Centurion Foundation, have scored a C for more than five grading rounds in a row.
Otis Brown, a spokesperson for CharterCARE, said the health care organization is “fully committed to safe, quality patient care” and accredited by other organizations that survey hospitals. Brown added that CharterCARE did not participate in Leapfrog’s survey, but a Leapfrog spokesperson said the majority of the data used to calculate grades comes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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