These are the safest Georgia hospitals to work as a nurse in 2023

When it comes to choosing a hospital to work at, safety is paramount. That is why Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade releases survey results twice a year to determine the safest hospitals for nurses within the U.S. In their latest survey, 21 Georgia hospitals stood out for their safety scores.

Twice a year, the company assigns scores to roughly 3,000 general acute-care hospitals across the country based on more than 30 different national performance measurements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These measurements, which include everything from quality of communication between medical staff to infection rates, grade how safe the hospitals are for patients. The end result is a surveyed representation of the overall quality of each hospital, making them safer and better work environments for nurses.

“Taken together, those performance measures produce a single letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors,” the organization reported.

According to the Leapfrog Group, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, the survey has observed thousands of saved lives over the years.

“Measures used in the Hospital Safety Grade have changed over time, but measures that could be reliably tracked over the decade show a consistent pattern of better performance,” the organization reported. “For five of the outcome measures that can be tracked, these improvements saved an estimated more than 16,000 lives over the 10-year period.”

Across Georgia, the Leapfrog Group awarded A grades to 21 hospitals.

“Never in history have we seen across-the-board improvement in patient safety until this last decade, coinciding with the history of the Hospital Safety Grade,” Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said in a news release. “We salute hospitals for this milestone and encourage them to accelerate their hard work saving patient lives. For a long time, the health care community tried to improve safety, but progress stalled. The big difference over this decade is that for the first time, we publicly reported each hospital’s record on patient safety, and that galvanized the kind of change we all hoped for. It’s not enough change, but we are on the right track.”