The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit health care ratings organization, released new Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, awarding A’s to St. Luke’s hospitals.
Nine St. Luke’s acute care campuses – Bethlehem, Allentown, Anderson, Carbon, Easton, Monroe, Sacred Heart and Warren, as well as Geisinger St. Luke’s Hospital – were among a select group of hospitals across the nation awarded an A for their commitment to keeping patients safe and meeting the highest safety standards in the nation. St. Luke’s Upper Bucks and Miners campuses earned B’s.
The Safety Grade assigns letter grades of A, B, C, D and F twice annually – in the spring and fall – to hospitals nationwide based on their performance in preventing medical errors, infections and other harms.
New this year, Leapfrog awarded a “Straight A” designation to hospitals that have earned A’s at least five times in a row. The following seven St. Luke’s hospitals qualified:
St. Luke’s Allentown Campus – 10 A’s in a row, Straight A since 2019; St. Luke’s Anderson Campus – 13 A’s in a row, Straight A since 2018; St. Luke’s Monroe Campus – 11 A’s in a row, Straight A since 2019; St. Luke’s Sacred Heart Campus – eight A’s in a row – Straight A since 2020; St. Luke’s Bethlehem Campus – 14 A’s in a row - Straight A since 2017; St. Luke’s Warren Campus – 11 A’s in a row, Straight A since 2019; Geisinger St. Luke’s Hospital – 5 A’s in a row, Straight A since 2022.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only rating solely focused on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections. Developed under the guidance of a panel of national experts, it uses 30 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to nearly 3,000 U.S. hospitals.
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