Red Bank's Riverview Medical Center Gets 'A' Safety Grade

RED BANK, NJ — Red Bank's Riverview Medical Center is among the 30 New Jersey hospitals that got an "A" grade in The Leapfrog Group's annual fall safety grades.

The nonprofit watchdog organization has collected, analyzed and published hospital data on safety, quality and resource use for 20 years.

Hospitals are rated with a grade between "A" and "F" based on their ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.

Red Bank's Riverview Medical Center's score went up from a "B" in Spring 2021. It had gone down from an "A" in the fall of 2020.

"In some hospitals, patient safety is a top priority. Strong health care teams reduce infection rates, put checks in place to prevent mistakes, and ensure strong lines of communication between hospital staff, patients, and families," the organization wrote on its website. "But some hospitals don’t have teams that work well together or good leadership to ensure that patient safety is the number one priority."

The Leapfrog Group said that many hospitals in this country have safety records that wouldn’t be tolerated in any other industry. According to them, 250,000 people die every year from hospital errors, injuries, accidents, and infections.

In New Jersey, 16 hospitals got a "B" grade, 22 hospitals got a "C" grade and two hospitals got a "D" grade. None of them got an "F" frade.

See the full score of Riverview Medical Center here.

The Leapfrog Group provides patients with information guides on how to use their safety guide. You can also learn what you can do to stay safe.

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