Palm Beach, Florida residents should be very concerned when local hospitals – Delray Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, West Boca Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center – waste money and court time to try to suppress publication of critical information their patients deserve to know. Leapfrog will win in court as we always do. But nobody wins at the bedside, where patients are needlessly at risk for suffering and even death because these hospitals have not done enough to protect them.
When we look at these hospitals’ results from Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), we see preventable suffering and death far exceeding the national average, and even the national average is too high. Instead of using their resources to file frivolous lawsuits, they should be improving how their patients are treated. That is the leadership communities expect from their hospitals.
These hospitals may wish to withhold their hospitals’ Safety Grades from the community they serve, but Leapfrog intends to fully defend its expert, proven and long-standing methodology to prevent that from happening and publish Grades for all eligible hospitals, including these hospitals. Please review the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades for spring 2025 which are available for free on hospitalsafetygrade.org.