The Leapfrog Group announced its fall 2019 hospital safety grades.
Cape Coral, Lee Memorial, Gulf Coast Medical Center, and Healthpark Medical Center received ‘A’ grades.
Lehigh Regional Medical Center received ‘B’ grade.
Hospital safety grades focus on how hospitals protect patients from errors, accidents, hospital-related injuries and communications.
Not all hospitals in our area did well, however.
Fawcett Memorial and Bayfront Health in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda received ‘C’ grades.
Both Collier County Hospitals NCH Naples and NCH Baker received a ‘D’ grade.
NCH filed a lawsuit against Leapfrog over the grades they received.