Northwestern Medicine In Geneva Earns 'A' Grade In Preventing Errors: Watchdog Group

GENEVA, IL — Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital is one of 27 hospitals in Illinois to receive the gold-standard "A" grade from an independent nonprofit healthcare watchdog group.

Delnor Hospital, at 300 S. Randall Road, has maintained its high grade from The Leapfrog Group since spring 2019, Patch reported.

Of the 109 hospitals evaluated, 24 throughout the state earned a "B," 50 earned a "C" and 8 earned a "D." None hospitals received an F, according to The Leapfrog Group's Fall 2023 Hospital Safety Grades Report.

The nonprofit used an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on how well they prevent medical errors, accidents and infections. Overall, the report shows hospitals significantly reduced infections after the pandemic spike, but patient-reported experiences declined for the second consecutive year.

The Leapfrog Group grades hospitals twice a year. In the fall report, the first report using post-pandemic data, 30 percent of hospitals nationwide earned an "A," 24 percent earned a "B," 39 percent earned a "C," 7 percent earned a "D," and fewer than 1 percent earned an "F."

Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital's ability to protect patients from preventable errors.