By Adam Studzinski

BLOOMINGTON – OSF St. Joseph Medical Center recently received ‘straight A’s’ for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group.

Since 2012 the group’s Hospital Safety Score has used 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single A, B, C, D, or F score, to represent a hospital’s overall ability to keep patients safe from preventable harm.

OSF President Chad Boore said the rating is a validation of the hospital’s primary focus.

“They are always looking to provide just that absolute greatest care and love in the safest environment possible,” he said.

Boore added the hospital has been given an A grade since the ratings first came out in 2012.

“The idea, of course, is to pursue perfection. Which means we are always looking for what we can do better,” said Boore. “We get out every day and round on all of our patients, our leadership team does, and just ask the patients questions. We constantly are looking at our own data.”

More than 2,500 hospitals were assigned scores this year. About 31 percent received an A grade.

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