Four Mercer County Hospitals Named Among Safest In NJ

MERCER COUNTY, NJ — Four Mercer County Hospitals earned top grades in the recent safety ranking released by Leapfrog for making improvements in protecting patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.

The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit healthcare watchdog, used an academic grading scale to score around 3,000 hospitals across the country on more than 30 measures of patient safety.

Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country that focuses on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.

Two county hospitals earned an A, one got a B and the other a C.

Here are the hospitals and their grades: A

• Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell, Pennington
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton, Hamilton

B

• Capital Health Regional Medical Center, Trenton

C

• St. Francis Medical Center of Trenton, Trenton

In New Jersey, 33 hospitals received an A, 20 received a B, 14 received a C and 3 received a D grade. Not a single state hospital received an F.

According to Leapfrog, most hospitals have improved under public scrutiny.

“For a long time, the healthcare community tried to improve safety, but progress stalled,” Group President and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release.

“The big difference over this decade is that for the first time, we publicly reported each hospital’s record on patient safety, and that galvanized the kind of change we all hoped for.”

For complete rankings of state hospitals, click here.

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