The Leapfrog Group has released its biannual "safety grades" for hospitals around the nation, including 41 medical centers in Mississippi. The nonprofit issues a grade of A-F to hospitals based on overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable medical errors.
Tim Moore is the president and CEO of the Mississippi Hospital Association. He says he's proud of the hospitals in the state that received high grades, but recognizes that different groups use different metrics when issuing scores such as these.
"There are a number of different systems that do [this]," he said. "Matter of fact, if you compare four of those systems, rarely will you find a hospital or health system that gets number one on all four of them."
While the scores were released this month, they are meant to reflect hospital performance in the Fall of 2022. Moore says that the issues that inform these ratings are likely already being improved upon by hospital staff.
"When a facility sees indicators that are not favorable, they're already working on them before we see them because they see them internally before anybody on the outside does." he said. "They start working to try to correct those and improve all of those indicators immediately."
The only hospital in the state to receive a grade lower than a "C" was Merit Health Biloxi.
