UCSF Health Hospitals Acknowledged Among Nation’s Top for Quality and Safety
UCSF Health’s hospitals at Parnassus Heights and Mount Zion have both earned The Leapfrog Group’s 2023 Top Hospital award, a national distinction that only 6% of hospitals can claim.
More than 2,100 hospitals were considered for the award in one of four categories: pediatric, general, rural and teaching. Leapfrog, a health care transparency nonprofit, honored the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights’ Moffitt and Long Hospitals and the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion for their exceptional patient safety and quality of care.
“This distinction reflects the hard work our clinicians and staff put in every day to provide excellent care for all of our patients, no matter where they come from or their ability to pay,” said UCSF Health President and Chief Executive Officer Suresh Gunasekaran. “We are honored to have our hospitals recognized as best in class for safety and quality.”
Recent efforts around safety and quality at UCSF Health hospitals include increasing family and patient involvement on quality improvement committees and a campaign to reduce hospital-acquired infections, alongside continuous work to improve quality across the range of hospital care.
This distinction reflects the hard work our clinicians and staff put in every day to provide excellent care for all of our patients, no matter where they come from or their ability to pay.”
Hospitals must have earned an “A’ in the most recent round of scoring for the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade to be eligible as a Top Hospital. Leapfrog’s rankings are based on hospitals’ performance across many areas, including maintaining systems to prevent medication errors and infections, and having higher quality maternity care and safer surgery.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland also received the Top Hospital award last year in the children’s hospitals category.
Last month, Leapfrog awarded a 2023 “A” safety grade to UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, which includes the UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital, UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco. The grade, updated twice a year, is based on more than 30 national performance measures and is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public.
UCSF Medical Center consistently ranks among the nation’s top hospitals, according to U.S. News & World Report, and has been named among the nation’s leaders in quality and safety across health care’s most highly regarded rating systems. It received a 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for its quality of care, has achieved the gold standard “magnet recognition” for nursing excellence for more than a decade, and is listed among the top-performing academic medical centers in quality and safety by the health care performance improvement company Vizient, Inc.