Advocate Condell Earns "A" Grade for Patient Safety

Advocate Condell Medical Center is recognized with an "A" Hospital Safety Score for the seventh consecutive term by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The Score rates how well hospitals protect patients from accidents, errors, injuries and infections.

Scores have been released twice each year since June 2012. Advocate Condell has been awarded an "A" Grade each time, placing it in an elite group of hospitals that have received straight A's since the Score launched. Condell is the only hospital in Lake County, Illinois, to achieve this high standard.

"Safety is Advocate Condell's number one priority," said Advocate Condell Medical Center President Dominica Tallarico. "Advocate Condell's consistent achievement of an "A" Grade in our Hospital Safety Score tells our patients we are committed to providing the safest environment, best health outcomes and an exceptional patient experience."

Leapfrog assigns A, B, C, D and F grades to more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals based on 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data. The Score is designed to give individuals information to protect themselves and their families. For the first time since the Hospital Safety Scores debuted, this year the website is displaying hospitals' grades all the way back to the Score's inception in 2012. The goal is to make it easy for consumers to identify hospitals that have consistently achieved high standards or improved. To search for a hospital's score, go to www.hospitalsafetyscore.org/