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Nine Military Hospitals Receive Highest Leapfrog Grade for Safe, High-Quality Care

Image of Nine Military Hospitals Receive Highest Leapfrog Grade for Safe, High-Quality Care. FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency announced today that nine military hospitals received an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, demonstrating DHA’s commitment to safe, high-quality care and transparency.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency announced today that nine military hospitals received an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, demonstrating DHA’s commitment to safe, high-quality care and transparency.

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is a letter grade program that rates a hospital’s patient safety measures through more than 30 national performance indicators. Each indicator reflects errors, accidents, injuries, and infections, as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent patient harm. This enables all hospitals, including military, to publicly report their progress in quality and safety.

DHA is the first federal health system to participate in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program. Currently, all military inpatient facilities track and report areas that are surveyed in the program.

“We’re humbled at everyone’s enthusiastic participation across our health care system,” said Dr. Paul Cordts, deputy assistant director for medical affairs and DHA chief medical officer. “The quality and safety assurance measures and improvement initiatives that are in place ensure that we’re providing the best care possible for our beneficiaries.”

The nine hospitals that received an “A” grade are:

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program is run by the Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog that advocates for improved patient safety in health care. The program is peer-reviewed, fully transparent, and free to the public.

Media with additional questions should contact DHA Media Relations.

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Quality, Patient Safety & Access Information (for Patients)

We're committed to making it easy to find information on how the Military Health System is performing. At our Transparency hub, you'll find data showing how our facilities score on industry standard measures for patient safety, health care outcomes, quality of care, and patient satisfaction and access to care. Search for military hospitals or clinics on Hospital Compare, Quality Check, or Leapfrog to see how we're doing and how we measure our performance.

 

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Defense Health Agency

The Defense Health Agency provides health services to approximately 9.6 million beneficiaries, including uniformed service members, military retirees, and their families. The DHA operates one of the nation’s largest health plans, the TRICARE Health Plan, and manages a global network of more than 700 military hospitals, clinics, and dental facilities.

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