Sentences with phrase «hospital safety rates»

Other studies have confirmed that the home birth and hospital safety rates are not statistically different.

We currently have a «B» rating on Leapfrog's hospital safety rating system.

October 31, 2016 UChicago Medicine earns 10th straight «A» for hospital safety rating The University of Chicago Medicine earned its 10th consecutive straight «A» rating in hospital safety, according to a new report card released Monday by a prominent industry watchdog.

April 25, 2106 University of Chicago Medicine earns 9th straight «A» in hospital safety rating The University of Chicago Medicine received its 9th consecutive «A» rating for hospital safety from The Leapfrog Group, an industry watchdog that tracks thousands of hospitals nationwide.

The Hospital Safety Score is the gold standard rating for patient safety, compiled under the guidance of the nation's leading patient safety experts and administered by The Leapfrog Group, the first and only hospital safety rating to be peer - reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety.

The first and only hospital safety rating to be peer - reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, the Hospital Safety 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.

Not exact matches

Authors Wax, Lucas, Lamont, Pinette, Cartin & Blackstone sought to systematically review the medical literature on the maternal and newborn safety of planned home verses planned hospital birth, a level IV rating on the Hierarchy of Evidence.

Simply put, the death rate was not zero and until the difference (if any) between maternal deaths at home and in the hospital is determined, we can not draw any conclusions about the safety of homebirth for Dutch mothers.

Or are she and the authors of the study so ignorant of childbirth safety statistics that they don't realize that the homebirth death rate 400 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth?

Sometimes there are good reasons, but sometimes the reasons are related to insurance rates, or demands on doctors» time (some hospitals require an OB attending a VBAC to be in house the entire time the VBAC is laboring, and few doctors want to do this) rather than the most medically appropriate choice or patient safety.

Home birth is uncommon in the United Kingdom and uncertainty exists about its safety.1 2 Almost all mortality figures available nationally1 provide merely a single global figure for planned and unplanned home births, though the constituent rates differ greatly.3 The only recent figures for planned home birth in England and Wales relating to 19794 and 19935 provide an inaccurately low estimate of risk because it was not possible to account for those mothers who originally booked to have a home delivery but ended up delivering in hospital.

International research on safety of homebirths [1]: «In 2014, a comprehensive review in the Journal of Medical Ethics of 12 previously published studies encompassing 500,000 planned home births in low - risk women found that perinatal mortality rates for home births were triple that of hospital births.

Category: Articles, Care Options, Induction, Information, Interventions, Labour, News & Events, Pregnancy, Press releases, Safety, Standards Tags: birth statistics in Ireland per unit, C - section rate in Ireland per hospital, Episiotomy rate in Ireland per hospital

Yet, when I analyzed all of the studies that the Midwives» Alliance of North America (MANA) says comprise the best evidence for the safety of home birth, I found that every study that looked at nonhospital birth in the United States (and many of the studies that looked at other countries, as well) reported much higher death rates for babies when compared to similar hospital births.

Ina May Gaskin reports that at The Farm Midwifery Center, the C - section rate is only 1.4 percent — a safety rate unparalleled by hospitals.

New York and Connecticut hospitals rank among the worst in the nation when it comes to safety ratings, while New Jersey fared much better, a new report finds.

Another bill passed unanimously in both houses would narrow the definition of a safety - net hospital and instruct the state health commissioner to raise reimbursement rates for hospitals that meet the new criteria.

But it paves the way for an all - out lobbying effort from activists and labor unions such as DC - 37 and the New York State Nurses Association, which argue that the current definition of safety net is overly broad and that dozens of hospitals, which serve the state's poorest residents, are unable to survive on the current Medicaid rates.

The legislation, which passed unanimously and now heads to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's desk, would narrow the definition of a safety - net hospital and instruct the state health commissioner to raise reimbursement rates for hospitals that meet the new criteria.

«Across specialties and across the country the rate of compliance has been extremely poor,» says the study's lead author Christopher Landrigan, a sleep and patient safety researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard.

UConn John Dempsey Hospital is the only hospital in the Farmington Valley awarded an «A» patient safety rating by The LeapfroHospital is the only hospital in the Farmington Valley awarded an «A» patient safety rating by The Leapfrohospital in the Farmington Valley awarded an «A» patient safety rating by The Leapfrog Group.

Visit The Leapfrog Group's hospital compare site to see hospital safety scores and C - section rates (click on the «Maternity Care» filter for C - section rates specifically).

A key indicator of the current poor levels of cultural safety in health care delivery within the hospital setting is the unacceptable rate of discharge against medical advice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.