“The staff and providers at Mercy are focused on ensuring the safety and wellbeing of those who entrust us with their care,” said Mercy CEO Tom Gessel. 

“Patient safety needs to be a 24-7 priority for hospitals, as errors and infections are all too common and often deadly,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, which administers the Hospital Safety Score. “We commend the ‘A’ hospitals, including Mercy Regional, for helping us to raise the standards of health care nationwide, and demonstrating that they’ve made the wellbeing of patients a top priority.”  

Developed under the guidance of an expert panel at Leapfrog, the Hospital Safety Score uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm. More than 2,500 U.S. general hospitals were assigned scores in fall 2014, with about 31 percent receiving an “A” grade. The Hospital Safety Score is fully transparent, with a full analysis of the data and methodology used in determining grades available online.

To see how Mercy’s score compares locally and nationally, visit the Hospital Safety Score website at www.hospitalsafetyscore.org.