CHI St. Alexius Health Bismarck Receives an “A” Rating in Safety

CHI St. Alexius Health in Bismarck was awarded an “A” grade for safety in The Leapfrog Group’s latest Hospital Safety Scores. CHI St. Alexius Health Bismarck was the only hospital in central and western North Dakota to receive an “A.”

“We are proud to receive an ‘A’ grade in safety from The Leapfrog Group,” said Kurt Schley, president of CHI St. Alexius Health Bismarck. “This is a tribute to our physicians, nurses and entire clinical and non-clinical associates for their hard work and dedication to position our hospital as a leading, trusted provider of care for the patients we have the privilege to serve.”

According to Rosanne Schmidt, vice president and chief nursing officer, this is a wonderful achievement for CHI St. Alexius Health Bismarck.  “Everyone in our organization is focused on achieving the highest quality standards of care to ensure the safety and well-being of our patients.”

For its latest scores, the Leapfrog Group assigned “A” to “F” letter grades to hospitals based on 28 performance measures using data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the American Hospital Association’s annual survey, CDC, CMS, and the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. Taken together, they produce a single score representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.

According to an analysis of the Leapfrog data conducted by Matt Austin and Jordan Derk of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, patients at hospitals that received an “A” grade faced a lower risk of avoidable death than those at other hospitals.

To learn more about Leapfrog or the grade of other hospitals, visit hospitalsafetyscore.org [1].