St. Tammany Parish Hospital was once again awarded an A from The Leapfrog Group during its fall 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade review period. This marks the eighth consecutive grading period in which STPH has earned the highest safety rating. Rating periods occur every six months, in spring and fall.
The designation recognizes STPH’s efforts to protect patients and deliver safe, high quality healthcare. The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization committed to improving healthcare quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. The Safety Grade assigns an A, B, C, D, or F grade to hospitals across the country based on their performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections, and other harms to patients in their care.
Developed under the guidance of a national Expert Panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. acute-care hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.