Overlook Medical Center Earns Another 'A' Grade For Patient Safety

SUMMIT, NJ — For the fourth time in a row, Summit's Overlook Medical Center has received an "A" grade for its high quality of patient safety, according to Leapfrog's Fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grades report released Wednesday.

The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit healthcare watchdog group, used an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. Overlook is one of 33 hospitals in New Jersey to receive an "A" grade.

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.

Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, which is a part of the Atlantic Health System along with Overlook, also received an "A" rating.

Check out how other NJ hospitals did here: NJ Safest Hospitals: Latest Ratings Released For Fall

Since 2012, Leapfrog has released Safety Grades twice per year, and Overlook has received an "A" the past four times in a row.

According to Leapfrog, the letter grade signifies a hospital's overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade methodology has been peer reviewed and published in the Journal of Patient Safety.

Leapfrog's Safety Grade rates hospitals on the very basics of medical care, such as handwashing, entering prescriptions through a computer and the availability of highly-trained nurses.

You can learn more about Leapfrog's methodology on their website.

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