For the third consecutive grading period, Piedmont Atlanta Hospital has earned an ‘A’ from The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. The designation recognizes Piedmont Atlanta’s efforts in protecting patients from harm and providing safer health care.
 
The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. The Safety Grade assigns an ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’ or ‘F’ grade to hospitals across the country based on their performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other harms to patients in their care.
 
“Piedmont Atlanta’s third consecutive ‘A’ grade from Leapfrog is a testament to our staff’s commitment to providing high-quality care safely,” said Piedmont Atlanta’s CEO Patrick Battey, M.D., FACS. “Patient safety is our highest priority as we strive to create a one-of-a-kind experience that always puts patients first.”
 
“To be recognized nationally as an ‘A’ hospital is an accomplishment the whole community should take pride in,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “Hospitals that earn an ‘A’ grade are making it a priority to protect patients from preventable medical harm and error. We congratulate hospital leaders, board members, staff, volunteers and clinicians who work so hard to earn this A.”
 
Developed under the guidance of a national Expert Panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. acute-care hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.
 
Piedmont Atlanta’s consistent ‘A’ grades from Leapfrog have caught the attention of other quality organizations as well and played a role in the hospital’s recent selection by Becker’s Healthcare as one of the Top 100 Great Hospitals in America for 2019.