{"id":45255,"date":"2019-11-07T13:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45255"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:03:27","slug":"leapfrog-group-releases-hospital-safety-grades-for-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/11\/leapfrog-group-releases-hospital-safety-grades-for-southwest-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Leapfrog Group releases hospital safety grades for Southwest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/images.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45256\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Leapfrog Group announced its fall 2019 hospital safety\ngrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cape Coral, Lee Memorial, Gulf Coast Medical Center, and\nHealthpark Medical Center received &#8216;A&#8217; grades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalsafetygrade.org\/h\/lehigh-regional-medical-center?findBy=zip&amp;zip_code=33936&amp;radius=10&amp;rPos=0&amp;rSort=distance\">Lehigh\nRegional Medical Center<\/a> received &#8216;B&#8217; grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospital safety grades focus on how hospitals protect\npatients from errors, accidents, hospital-related injuries and communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all hospitals in our area did well, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fawcett Memorial and Bayfront Health in Port Charlotte and\nPunta Gorda received &#8216;C&#8217; grades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Collier County Hospitals NCH Naples and NCH Baker\nreceived a &#8216;D&#8217; grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NCH filed a lawsuit against Leapfrog over the grades they\nreceived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leapfrog Group announced its fall 2019 hospital safety grades. Cape Coral, Lee Memorial, Gulf Coast Medical Center, and Healthpark Medical Center received &#8216;A&#8217; grades. Lehigh Regional Medical Center received&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}