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Pen Bay Medical Center Earns ‘A’ Grade for Patient Safety in April 2016 Hospital Safety Score
The Leapfrong Group has announced the Spring 2016 Hospital Safety Scores which assign grades to hospitals nationwide and provide the most complete picture of patient safety in the U.S. health care system. Pen Bay Medical Center has received an ‘A’ grade, ranking among the safest hospitals in the United States. This continues Pen Bay Medical Center’s designation as a “Straight A’s” hospital for never receiving a grade lower than an A from the Hospital Safety Score since the Score first launched in June 2012. Developed under the guidance of Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 30 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign A, B, C, D and F grades to more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals twice per year. It is calculated by top patient safety experts, peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. For the first time, the Hospital Safety Score includes five measures of patient-reported experience with the hospital as well as two of the most common infections, C.diff and MRSA. To see Pen Bay Medical Center’s full score, visit www.hospitalsafetyscore.org.