HERSHEY, Pa. — Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has once again earned the highest grade on the Leapfrog Group’s latest safety ranking report card: The Medical Center achieved an A on the Fall 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
This represents the seventh consecutive A grade for Hershey Medical Center.
Leapfrog assigns grades of A, B, C, D or F to hospitals across the nation based on their performance in preventing medical errors, infections and other harms among patients in their care.
Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals.
More information is available at www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.