John Peter Smith Hospital Initially Scored A D In Patient Safety. Now, The County Hospital Is Making B's And An A.

Arlington TX

25 May, 2022

3:34 PM

Description

By Alexis Allison, Fort Worth Report May 24, 2022 The banner unfurled from the garage on Morphy Street in Fort Worth. Employees from John Peter Smith Hospital, across the way, gathered below. There were speeches, confetti — a moment of togetherness in November 2021, between the delta and omicron COVID-19 variants, for the county hospital to celebrate the achievement of a long-awaited goal: An "A" safety grade from The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that scores general hospitals nationwide on patient safety. "It's been a lot to get to an A," said Dr. Rob Stephenson, a surgeon and chief quality officer at the hospital. "So it was quite cathartic last fall when we got to celebrate that, especially since we'd been cooped up (by COVID-19)." To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.