b'HOSPITAL SAFETY GRADE 2022 is the 10th anniversary of the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a letter grade assigned to nearly 3,000 general acute-care hospitals across the nation. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is an A, B, C, D, or F grade awarded twice a year to general hospitals on how well they protect patients from preventable errors, injuries, and infections. Today it is the gold standard measure of patient safety, and the impact has been profound. Tens of millions of Americansand thousands of employers and other purchasers use the Safety Grade. LEAPFROG More than half of all hospitals report using the Safety Grade or other Leapfrog 50,000 PROVIDESratings in CEO performance evaluations. Safety Grade changes are reported in thousands of media outlets and coverage includes AARP Magazine, USA Today, INVALUABLEThe New York Times, and Modern Healthcare. Hospitals use billboards, digital DATAadvertising, and public events to advertise their Safety Grade to the public and highlight the importance they put on patient safety. This year alone over THAT ALL400 hospitals across the country touted their Safety Grade in these ways.PATIENTSNever in history has the issue of patient safety been so prominent. SHOULDSAFETY GRADE IN ACTION USE.When Carl Flatley was out of town for a bike race last year, he woke up inthe middle of the night with severe back pain. He needed a hospital.CARL FLATLEY, He quickly looked at the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades in the area he was PATIENT ADVOCATE in and realized the closest hospitals had low grades. The nearest A graded hospital was four hundred miles away. Was it worth the trip? For Carl, the answer was yes; he lost his beautiful 20-year-old daughter to a preventable oversight that led to a deadly bout of sepsis. Patient safety must come first when picking a hospital, because without it nothing else matters. He made the drive to the A hospital. They gave him safe care, and after a brief stay,he was discharged almost ready to enter another bike race.ANNUAL REPORT 2021-20223'