Hospital Safety Scores: How Did Lawrence and Memorial Hospital Do?

The Hospital Safety Score, which is a public service provided by The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization “committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system,” has handed out its latest hospital safety grades.

The Hospital Safety Score examines how well each hospital does at keeping their patients safe from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. Information is compiled from surveys, public data and information from the Center for Disease Control.

They assigned scores to more than 2,500 hospitals nationwide, including 25 hospitals in Connecticut.

The top hospitals, according to the Hospital Safety Score, are found in Maine (No. 1), Massachusetts (No. 2) , Florida (No. 3), Virginia (No. 4) , and New Jersey (No. 5).

Connecticut was all the way down at No. 36 on the list, which is based off of which states had the highest percentage of “A” ranked hospitals in its state.

For example, in Connecticut just four of the 25 ranked hospitals earned an “A” safety rating score.

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According to the Hospital Safety Score, the following are the top ranked hospitals in Connecticut based on safety scores. Click on the hyperlink for each one to learn in-depth why each hospital received the grade it did.

Hospitals That Received “A” Safety Rating

• University of Connecticut Health Center, John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington
• St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport
• Stamford Hospital in Stamford
• Griffin Hospital in Derby

Hospitals That Received “B” Safety Rating

• Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam
• The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich
• St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford
• Bristol Hospital in Bristol

Hospitals That Received “C” Safety Rating

• Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London
• Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester
• Middlesex Hospital in Middletown
• Hartford Hospital in Hartford
• MidState Medical Center in Meriden
• The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain
• Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven
• Milford Hospital in Milford
• Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury
• Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury
• Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington
• Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk
• Danbury Hospital in Danbury
• Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich

Hospitals That Received “D” Safety Rating

• Windham Hospital in Willimantic
• Johnson Memorial Medical Center in Stafford Springs
• Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport

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