December 18, 2024 – The Leapfrog Group introduced the 2024 winners for his or her elite annual Prime Hospital Award and Prime Ambulatory Surgical procedure Middle (ASC) Award. This nationwide recognition is likely one of the best awards U.S. hospitals and surgical procedure facilities can earn for excellence in affected person security and high quality of care. Choose hospitals and ASCs might be celebrated as a part of Leapfrog's 2024 Annual Assembly and Awards Dinner.

This 12 months, 134 hospitals earned the Prime Hospital Award, together with eight Prime Youngsters's Hospitals, 36 Prime Normal Hospitals, 15 Prime Rural Hospitals and 75 Prime Educating Hospitals. This represents lower than six % of all eligible hospitals within the US

A complete of 31 ASCs earned the Prime ASC Award. ASCs in 9 surgical specialties are represented: gastroenterology, common surgical procedure, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, orthopedic surgical procedure, urology, neurological surgical procedure, obstetrics and gynecology, and plastic and reconstructive surgical procedure.

The award honors hospitals and ASCs that display the very best efficiency within the nation in high quality and affected person security, together with moral billing and knowledgeable affected person consent procedures, decrease an infection charges, maternity care security, remedy error prevention and surgical security.

Go to www.leapfroggroup.org/tohospitals for the whole methodology and record of establishments honored as Prime Hospitals 2024.

For the whole record of establishments honored as Prime ASCs for 2024, go to www.leapfroggroup.org/ratings-report/top-ascs.

Proceed studying the Leapfrog Group press launch.