Healthgrades names top hospitals for patient safety in 2017; See the list

Mercy Hospital Joplin was among those awarded by Healthgrades.

Healthgrades this week named more than 400 hospitals to its 2017 Patient Safety Excellence Award class, highlighting those facilities and systems that perform above their peers when it comes to limiting deadly medical errors and other preventable patient harm incidents.

[Also: Healthgrades breaks down the results]
[Also: See the list of patient experience winners]

Based on data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Healthgrades said it has identified the top 10 percent of facilities when it comes to patient safety. Also, Healthgrades said 134,568 patient safety events could have been avoided if all hospitals performed like the winners did.

Here is the full list. It is searchable by facility, city or state.

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