UCSF Hospitals Achieve Grade ‘A’ for Patient Safety from Leapfrog Group
UCSF Health hospitals at Mission Bay and Parnassus Heights earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for spring 2023 – a national recognition of excellence for protecting patients from preventable harm and errors.
The safety group gave the highest rating to the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights’ Moffitt and Long Hospitals, and 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.
We are thrilled to see our staff and providers recognized for their daily commitment to excellence, including during the height of the pandemic.
SURESH GUNASEKARAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, UCSF HEALTH
“This award reflects the effort and heart we put into providing the safest and highest quality care for our patients,” said Suresh Gunasekaran, president and chief executive officer of UCSF Health. “We are thrilled to see our staff and providers recognized for their daily commitment to excellence, including during the height of the pandemic.”
The Leapfrog Group, a national health care nonprofit supported by employers and other purchasers of health care, assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” to almost 3,000 general hospitals across the country. The grade is based on more than 30 national performance measures that track errors, injuries, accidents and infections, as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
“This new update of Hospital Safety Grades shows that, at the national level, we saw deterioration in patient safety with the pandemic,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “But UCSF Health received an ‘A’ despite those challenges. I congratulate all the leaders, staff, volunteers and clinicians who together made that possible.”
Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospital prevention of medical errors and harms to patients. The grading system is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually, in the fall and spring.