Today’s healthcare consumers have myriad tools at their fingertips when looking to choose a hospital, and your hospital’s safety grade likely ranks highest in their decision criteria. For over 20 years, The Leapfrog Group has collected, analyzed, and published data on hospital safety and quality in order to push the health care industry forward.
With a click of a button, consumers can see how their local hospital performed in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. This transparency enables consumers to make better informed health care decisions — and has triggered giant leaps forward in the safety and quality of U.S. health care.
With bold headlines like “Lives Lost and Lives Saved”, The Leapfrog Group reports to consumers that,
“Overall, an estimated 160,000 lives are lost annually from the avoidable medical errors that are accounted for in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a significant improvement from 2016, when researchers estimated 205,000 avoidable deaths. The analysis also found that D and F hospitals carry nearly twice the risk of mortality of A hospitals. Over 50,000 lives could be saved if all hospitals performed at the level of A-graded hospitals.”
In their “How Safe is Your Hospital” communication, The Leapfrog Group further informs consumers that,
“In some hospitals, patient safety is a top priority. Strong healthcare teams reduce infection rates, put checks in place to prevent mistakes and ensure strong lines of communication between hospital staff, patients, and families. But some hospitals don’t have teams that work well together, or good leadership to ensure that patient safety is the number one priority. When one person makes a mistake, there isn’t a good team ready to catch that mistake. Patients can experience dangerous complications, recovery is slower, and some patients even die unnecessarily.”
Improve Your Hospital Safety Grade With Powerful Data Platforms
Effective hospital leaders make patient safety a priority and even A-rated hospitals make mistakes.
Are you taking advantage of technology tools to improve or keep your Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade? Today, rounding and insights platforms are available to help hospital leaders support awareness of potential patient safety problems so that you can collaborate with staff to fix them. With the right technology for all rounds on one platform, patient safety risks are easily identified, and action can be taken to prevent patient incidents.
One such solution focused on patient safety is Sentact.
Sentact offers both pre-built and customizable rounding templates that enable you to predict and prevent patient safety risks, ensure action is taken as issues are reported, better understand the root causes, reward positive behaviors in real-time, track progress, and set goals to enhance patient safety.
You’ll find an expansive library of templates that features best-practice surveys for:
- Environment of Care
- Fall Prevention
- Ligature
- Leader Rounding (patient or staff)
- Post-Discharge Calls
- Hourly Rounding
- Bedside Shift Change Audit
- CAUTI Prevention
- CLABSI prevention
- Med Management
- Tracers
- and more
The Benefits of Partnering With Sentact to Improve Your Hospital Safety Grade
By partnering with Sentact, you can uncover potential hidden dangers that can result in serious harm to patients, make sure all hospital staff know what they need to work on, and everyone is held accountable for improvements.
If you’re looking to better understand your patients and staff, patient safety risks, and inefficiencies to identify ways to hit your strategic goals, you’ll find that Sentact has developed resources that can help. With Sentact, you can manage rounds, surveys, audits, inspections, tracers – all on one platform – to get the data you need to support many of the strategic objectives that are reflected in your hospital’s Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
Partnering with Sentact has helped more than 850 healthcare organizations achieve tremendous results with HCAHPS, Hospital Acquired Conditions, and Regulatory Readiness. We deliver best practices data collection tools that are affordable, easy to implement, and exceptionally usable, combined with service recovery, recognition, and issue resolution workflows along with comprehensive data analytics that are instrumental to see real improvement results.
Download the Hospital Safety Grade Resource Bundle
Get more insight with our free download: The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Resource Bundle which includes these valuable resources:
- Achieving Excellence Whitepaper: The Keys to Improving Patient Experience and Service Recovery
- This whitepaper outlines the keys to improvement in patient experience and service recovery. With insights on many simple steps healthcare leaders can take today to boost team efficiency, improve data collection and analysis, and elevate patient experience, this paper focuses on people, process, and technology as the key areas to consider in driving such efforts.
- Creating a Culture of Safety with Real Time Personalized Care
- Discover patient safety outcomes, including statistics on the actual cost savings of reducing patient safety events through a comprehensive rounding platform and closed loop process that creates a safer environment for patients.
- Proven Technology to Improve or Keep Your Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
- Get outcomes details By the Numbers on improvement quality and safety across the care continuum. Read how healthcare systems that have taken advantage of comprehensive rounding, insights, and workflow software achieve better performance by discovering and addressing opportunities for improvement. The identification of these pain points allows hospitals to craft action plans to improve their patient safety record and save lives.
- Torrance Memorial Medical Center Achieves Award Winning Patient Experience
- Learn more about top patient engagement rounds and how Torrance Memorial Medical Center’s achieved top outcomes when switching to Sentact’s patient experience platform – the result of which earned them a Nursing Award from the American Medical Association – one of the top three hospitals awarded for the state of California.
- Return on Investment: Outcomes Summary on Improving Delivery of Safe and Quality Care
- A snapshot summary of achieved outcome statistics on improving the delivery of safe and quality care with a rounding and insights platform.
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