5 LI hospitals score 'A' in safety ranking
Photo credit: Charles Eckert, 2010 | St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn.
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Five Long Island hospitals scored an A in patient safety in a national ranking by a medical quality and patient safety group.
The Leapfrog Group, founded in 2000 by large employers to improve health care quality and safety, issued on Wednesday its second Hospital Safety Score of more than 2,600 hospitals nationwide. Reviewing data on 26 measures from national surveys ranging from 2009 to...