Bangor, Maine - St. Joseph Healthcare was recognized with an ‘A’ Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The ‘A’ score was awarded in the latest update to the Hospital Safety Score, the letter scores assigned to U.S. hospitals are based on preventable medical errors, injuries, accidents and infections. The Hospital Safety Score was compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety.“Earning an ‘A’ on the Hospital Safety Score demonstrates that this hospital has exhibited excellence in our national database of patient safety measures,” said Leah Binder, President and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “I’d like to congratulate St. Joseph Healthcare for your achievements and encourage you to continue to put a priority on the safety of your patients.”
Calculated under the guidance of The Leapfrog Group’s eight-member Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from infections, injuries, medical and medication errors.
St. Joseph Healthcare is committed to the healthcare needs of the greater Bangor community. We provide the fundamental healthcare services needed in the course of an individual’s life, including primary care, screening and diagnostic imaging, diabetes management, orthopedics, inpatient and outpatient surgery, and much more. Our mission embodies wellness promotion and healing of the whole person – mind, body and spirit.
St. Joseph Healthcare was also a 2012 recipient of the Grade ‘A’ award from the Leapfrog Group.
