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20 PATIENT SAFETY Where are the 29 Leapfrog straight-'A' hospitals? By Gabrielle Masson T he Leapfrog Group released its fall 2020 Hospital Safety Grades Dec. 14, assigning "A" through "F" letter grades to more than 2,600 acute care hospitals for patient safety performance. Leapfrog has assigned letter grades to hos- pitals based on their patient safety perfor- mance twice annually since spring 2012, with 29 hospitals maintaining the highest possible grade 18 consecutive times. e data for this safety grades update does not yet include hospitals' performance during the height of COVID-19, Leapfrog said. is spring's update will be the first to incorporate pandemic response periods. Arizona Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix) California French Hospital Medical Center (San Luis Obispo) Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Ana- heim Medical Center Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center (San Luis Obispo) Colorado Rose Medical Center (Denver) Florida AdventHealth Daytona Beach Memorial Hospital Miramar Illinois Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield) OSF St. Mary Medical Center (Galesburg) University of Chicago Medical Center Massachusetts Beverly Hospital Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (Boston) Saint Anne's Hospital (Fall River) Michigan Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital (Commerce Township) Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor) Mississippi Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle (Columbus) North Carolina UNC Rex Hospital (Raleigh) New Jersey Saint Barnabas Medical Center (Livingston) Ohio OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital (Delaware) Texas Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital St. David's Medical Center (Austin) Virginia Inova Loudoun Hospital (Leesburg) Sentara CarePlex Hospital (Hampton) Sentara Leigh Hospital (Norfolk) Sentara Obici Hospital (Suffolk) Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center Washington Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle) n Where are the 16 Leapfrog 'F' hospitals? By Mackenzie Bean T he Leapfrog Group gave 16 hospitals failing grades in its Fall 2020 Hospital Safety Grades released Dec. 14 The organization assigns letter grades every fall and spring to more than 2,600 acute care hospitals for patient safety performance. The data for this safety grades update does not yet include hospitals' performance during the height of COVID-19, Leap- frog said. This spring's update will be the first to incorporate pandemic response periods. Here is a list of the hospitals that had "F" grades in fall 2020, broken down by state. Arkansas Ouachita County Medical Center (Camden) California San Joaquin General Hospital (French Camp) Florida Bayfront Health Brooksville Bayfront Health Seven Rivers (Crystal River) Bayfront Health Spring Hill Illinois Gateway Regional Medical Center (Granite City) John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital (Chicago) Kansas Southwest Medical Center (Liberal) Missouri St. Alexius Hospital-Broadway Cam- pus (St. Louis) North Dakota Sanford Broadway Medical Center (Fargo) New York Ellis Hospital (Schenectady) Maimonides Medical Center (New York City) Oklahoma Comanche County Memorial Hospital (Lawton) South Carolina MUSC Health-Marion Medical Center (Mullins) Regional Medical Center of Orange- burg and Calhoun Counties Tennessee Tennova Healthcare-Harton (Tullahoma) n