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Bird’s eye view on Medical Errors
Prevalence of medical errors in United States and in State of Florida
Efforts to reduce medical errors at national and state level
Incentives for healthcare providers and facilities to reduce medical errors
Florida’s effort to reduce and prevent medical errors and improve patient safety
Types of medical errors
Prevention of medical errors in special needs population
Most Highly Rated Patient Safety Practices
Public Awareness and Education
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Medical Errors
Medical Errors

The hospital is supposed to be a safe place. When you take a sick or injured child there, your shoulders drop, you relax, thinking they’re in good hands, but the truth is far beyond that every year, more than 200,000 people die from preventable medical errors and up to 20 times more suffer from errors but don’t die from them.

The Leapfrog Group an independent, national nonprofit organization that administers the Score, is an advocate for patient safety nationwide, hospital Safety Score assigns A, B, C, D and F grades to more than 2,500 U.S. general hospitals. It shows many hospitals are making headway in addressing errors, accidents, injuries and infections that kill or hurt patients, but overall progress is slow. The Hospital Safety Score is calculated under the guidance of the Leapfrog Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, with a fully transparent methodology analyzed in the peer-reviewed Journal of Patient Safety.

Wrong drug, wrong dose, bad combination, bad reaction. When it comes to medications, innocent mistakes hurt about 1.5 million people each year, according to the Institute of Medicine.

Key Findings

  • On average, there was no improvement in hospitals’ reported performance on the measures included in the score, with the exception of hospital adoption of computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The expansion in adoption of this lifesaving technology suggests that federal policy efforts to improve hospital technology have shown some success.
  • Of the 2,539 general hospitals issued a Hospital Safety Score,813 earned an “A,” 661 earned a “B,” 893 earned a “C,” 150 earned a “D” and 22 earned an “F.”
  • While overall hospitals report little improvement in safety, some individual hospitals (3.5 percent) showed dramatic improvements of two or more grade levels.
  • The states with the smallest percentage of “A” hospitals include New Hampshire, Arkansas, Nebraska and New Mexico. No hospitals in New Mexico or the District of Columbia received an “A” grade.
  • Maine claimed the number-one spot for the state with the highest percentage of “A” hospitals.
  • Kaiser and Sentara were among the hospital systems that achieved straight “A” grades, meaning 100 percent of their hospitals received an “A.”
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