Hospital Safety Ratings: Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus

LAKEWOOD, NJ — Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus received for safety in The Leapfrog Group's annual fall safety grades.

The nonprofit health care watchdog group grades hospitals twice a year, assigning letter grades from "A" to "F" based on each hospital's ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.

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Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, part of the RWJ Barnabas Health Care network, received a "B" grade for the fall. It also received a B in the spring and in the fall of 2020. It received As in the spring of 2020 and in the fall of 2019 and it was not graded before that, according to Leap Frog.

Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus had mixed results in preventing infections and problems after surgery, with its score for deaths from treatable serious complications well above the average, as were its instances of bed sores and urinary tract infections in surgical patients.

The fall 2021 Hospital Safety Grade graded 2,901 facilities across the country, the most the group has graded. In New Jersey, 30 hospitals received an "A" grade, 16 hospitals received a "B" grade, 22 hospitals received a "C" grade and two hospitals received a "D" grade. No New Jersey hospitals received an "F" grade. Read more: New NJ Hospital Safety Ratings: 30 Get 'A' Grade, 2 Get 'D'

Among nearby hospitals, Ocean University Medical Center in Brick, Jersey Shore University Medical in Neptune and Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch received A grades. Community Medical Center in Toms River also received a B grade, and CentraState Medical Center in Freehold received a C.

The Safety Grades reflect performance on more than 30 evidence-based measures of patient safety, including for the first time, post-operative sepsis, blood leakage, and kidney injury.

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is advised by an expert panel of leading patient safety authorities from across the country and receives guidance from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Grades are updated biannually in the fall and in the spring.

For more information about the Hospital Safety Grade, including details on individual hospital grades and state rankings, visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org.

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