Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle achieved straight “A’s” for the seventh consecutive year in The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2019 Hospital Safety Grade,
Baptist-GT is the only hospital in Mississippi and one of only 41 in the United States to have received ‘Straight “A’s” for patient safety since Leapfrog began grading hospitals for patient safety in 2012.
Developed under the guidance of a National Expert Panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign the grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.
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