PMC Receives National Recognition for Patient Safety

Designed to rate how well hospitals protect patients from accidents, errors, injuries and infections, the LeapFrog Group honored Parrish Medical Center (PMC) with its top grade in patient safety. PMC has earned an “A” grade from LeapFrog in all releases of the Hospital Safety Score since 2012. This makes PMC one of only 182 hospitals in the nation and 14 in the state of Florida to have earned that distinction.

“We continue to be proud of our impeccable patient safety record and of our employees, physicians and volunteers who dedicate themselves every day to our mission to provide healing experiences for everyone all the time,” said George Mikitarian, President/CEO, Parrish Medical Center.

The Hospital Safety Score is compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety and is administered by The Leapfrog Group (Leapfrog), an independent industry watchdog. The first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, the Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay.

Leapfrog assigns a letter grade (A to F) to hospitals calculated from a group of 28 measures. Of the 28 measures used to calculate the scores, 15 are process-related or structure-related and 13 are outcome-based. Leapfrog uses several sources of data – the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, certain measures on Hospital Compare and AHA Annual Survey information.