Penn Medicine In Plainsboro Earns Top Grade In Latest Safety Ranking

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center in Plainsboro has earned top grades in the recent safety ranking released by Leapfrog.

The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit healthcare watchdog, used an academic grading scale to score around 3,000 hospitals across the country on more than 30 measures of patient safety.

Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country that focuses on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.

Penn Medicine received an A.

“I want to commend the physicians and staff members who support care at the hospital, as well as the healthcare quality specialists at Penn Medicine Princeton Health who monitor our clinical performance,” Princeton Health CEO James Demetriades, said in a news release.

“The hospital safety grade is a comprehensive, evidence-based evaluation. Earning an A takes a commitment to patient safety and continuous quality improvement throughout the organization.”

In New Jersey, 33 hospitals received an A, 20 received a B, 14 received a C and 3 received a D grade. Not a single state hospital received an F.

According to Leapfrog, most hospitals have improved under public scrutiny.

“For a long time, the healthcare community tried to improve safety, but progress stalled,” Group President and CEO Leah Binder said in a news release.

“The big difference over this decade is that for the first time, we publicly reported each hospital’s record on patient safety, and that galvanized the kind of change we all hoped for.”

For complete rankings of state hospitals, click here.

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