Greenwich Hospital received an “A” grade as one of the safest hospitals in the United States for a second consecutive year, according to The Leapfrog Group, an independent national patient safety watchdog group.
Greenwich Hospital fosters a culture of safety through daily safety huddles with senior staff, unit-based safety coaches and hospital-wide quality rounds conducted by leaders. All staff, physicians and volunteers complete high reliability training adapted from the aviation and other high-risk industries. Another safety initiative includes a video falls risk monitoring program.
The Leapfrog Group uses an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. 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.
