FORT WAYNE – All six eligible Parkview hospitals received "A" grades in the fall 2024 Hospital Safety Grades released by The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit focused on patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
Parkview Regional Medical Center & Affiliates, Parkview Bryan Hospital, Parkview DeKalb Hospital, Parkview Huntington Hospital, Parkview Noble Hospital and Parkview Whitley Hospital all received top grades on this fall's report.
Leapfrog assigns an A–F grade to general hospitals across the country based on more than 30 national performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and infections, as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
Parkview Bryan Hospital, which affiliated with Parkview in October 2023, received its first "A" grade since joining the system. The hospital had previously received "C" grades in fall 2023 (scored before joining Parkview) and in spring 2024 as the hospital transitioned to Parkview's full data recording and reporting procedures.
Parkview Regional Medical Center (PRMC) scored an "A" on 21 of 23 Leapfrog report cards dating back to 2013. Parkview's community hospitals also extended their "A" streaks — Parkview Huntington Hospital has scored an "A" for seven consecutive periods, Parkview DeKalb Hospital and Parkview Noble Hospital for five straight, and Parkview Whitley Hospital for the last four reports.
"Safety for both our patients and our co-workers remains a top priority at Parkview," said Dr. Jeffrey Boord, chief quality and safety officer, Parkview Health. "Parkview acts on the feedback we receive from our frontline workers and we increasingly leverage the power of data to make improvements and maintain high-quality care and safety. We're proud to earn straight A's from The Leapfrog Group as recognition that our efforts create and maintain a safe environment."
Parkview LaGrange Hospital, Parkview Wabash Hospital and Parkview Montpelier Hospital are not graded because the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade does not assess critical access hospitals due to limitations on publicly available data from those smaller facilities. Parkview Orthopedic Hospital is also not graded by Leapfrog because it is a specialty hospital.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program focused exclusively on preventable medical errors, infections and injuries that kill more than 500 patients a day nationally. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually, in the fall and spring.