Kaiser Permanente’s Moanalua Medical Center has been honored with an “A” grade in the Fall 2014Hospital Safety Score, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from errors, injuries and infections. The Hospital Safety Score is compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety and is administered by The Leapfrog Group (Leapfrog), an independent industry watchdog. Moanalua Medical Center is one of Kaiser Permanente’s 32 medical centers nationally to receive an A grade.
The first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, the Hospital Safety Score results are free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay. Developed under the guidance of Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, 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 31 percent receiving an “A” grade.
“Our dedicated care professionals work every day to improve patient outcomes and the quality of the health care we provide,” said Mary Ann Barnes, president of Kaiser Permanente Hawaii. “Our integrated, collaborative system improves communication and puts the patient at the center of everything we do.”
The Fall 2014 Hospital Safety Score announcement follows several recent honors received by Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, including top rankings by the National Committee for Quality Assurance Health Insurance Plan Ratings® and Quality Compass® measures, a 5-star Medicare plan rating by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the highest-rated mail-order pharmacy service by J.D. Power and Associates 2014 U.S. Pharmacy Study.
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To see how Hawaii hospital scores compare locally and nationally, and to access safety tips for patients and their loved ones, visit the Hospital Safety Score website at www.hospitalsafetyscore.org. Consumers can also go to www.hospitalsafetyscore.org for a free download of the Hospital Safety Score app.
Date: October 29, 2014