Iowa’s hospitals rank in the bottom half of the national pack on a new report card based on medical errors and other problems. Leah Binder, president and C-E-O of The Leapfrog Group, says the 2017 Hospital Safety Grade Report surveyed more than 26-hundred hospitals nationwide, including 33 facilities in Iowa. The grades were given based on medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
Iowa has fallen ten places in the survey over the past several years.
Of the 33 hospitals graded in Iowa, nine received an A, ten got Bs, 13 were given Cs, while there was one D for UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center of Sioux City.
