4 Mercer Hospitals Graded In Latest Safety Ratings: See Scores

MERCER COUNTY, NJ — Four Mercer County hospitals recently received safety ratings from a watchdog agency as part of its twice-yearly “safety grades.”

On Wednesday, The Leapfrog Group, an independent healthcare nonprofit, released ratings for Capital Health Medical Center, Capital Health Regional Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and St. Francis Medical Center.

The Leapfrog Group uses an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. 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.

The independent grading system assigns an A, B, C, D, or F grade to general hospitals.

See the grades Mercer hospitals received:

A

• Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell

B

• Capital Health Regional Medical Center

• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton

C

• St. Francis Medical Center of Trenton

New Jersey led the country in the number of hospitals receiving an “A” grade for the latest round of rankings, released Wednesday.

In the garden state, 31 hospitals received an A, 17 hospitals received a B, 11 hospitals received a C and zero hospitals received a D grade. No hospitals received an F. More: New NJ Hospital Safety Ratings Released (See Best, Worst)

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