Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical | Free | Patient Access Solutions, LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
This app is an easy-to-use tool to help you find the safest care in your community. Once at a hospital, use the app to help guide a conversation with your doctor, making sure you ask questions related to safety that can protect yourself or loved ones during a hospital stay. For more information about the Hospital Safety Grade, visit www.hospitalsafetygrade.org.
By using this app you are agreeing to our TERMS OF USE. The information viewed on this app is not intended to be the only or primary means for evaluating hospital quality nor is it intended to be relied upon as advice or a recommendation or an endorsement about which hospitals to use or the quality of the medical treatment that you receive from a hospital or other health care provider. You are solely responsible for any and all decisions with respect to your medical treatment. Neither Leapfrog nor its affiliates are responsible for any damages or costs you might incur with respect to your use of this app. Never disregard, avoid or delay in obtaining medical advice from your doctor or other health care professional because of something that you have read on this app as the app is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice.
Reviews
Safety at your fingertips!
Inpatient User
A simple app - a powerful tool. Now you can find which hospitals keep patients the safest, all in the palm of your hand.
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Health care consumer
An important step toward increasing transparency in our health care system.
Fantastic: It's About Time
Shamshoon
It's wonderful that somebody finally made a tool like this available. Finding a safe hospital for your stay or procedure is so important these days, and having clearly comprehensible informaition based on well designed research is a must. Thank you!!!
Amazing hospital safety app
tjmaryland
Lack of transparency in the US health system is a big deal. This app is a significant step in the right direction. We need more hospitals rated, but that's not the fault of the people behind this app.
Safety Score App
PatientSafetyAuthor
This new app is a precedent-breaking rip in the curtain of secrecy and opacity that has long prevented the average American from being able to substantively compare what our hospitals do, not just what they advertise. Everyone should download and use this tool, if for no other reason than to begin the process of taking more personal responsibility for choosing hospitals and doctors based on the best clinical outcomes, not who claims to have won the most awards. There will be angry criticism from some quarters that Leapfrog's statistical analysis either emphasizes some areas too much or too little, and any statistical comparison can be improved with time. But those institutions who react to a less than stellar score by attacking the app or the provider are missing the point: American healthcare will never be a safe system until every American has a reliable way of knowing who is really providing the best care and the smallest number of unnecessary injuries and deaths, and who is merely buying billboard ads proclaiming their quality. We have thousands of great hospitals, but everyone can improve, and that begins by a willingness to face less than stellar reviews and comparisons with humility and rededication to patient safety and quality outcomes. John J. Nance Author, "Why Hospitals Should Fly" and "Charting the Course."
Hospital ratings made easy.
Trust, But Verify
Simple to use app with credible information and grading of hospitals that my family can use wherever they are in the U.S. I generally trust my "A" rated hospital, but I am very glad it has been independently verified by experts. Thank you.
Excellent
TheNickelhaspoken
Great app! Anyone looking for healthcare nationwide should have this app. Exactly what the consumer needs.
Great App
Markthos
Immensely useful and a great stride toward increasing transparency in healthcare.
GREAT APP
Consumer Who Cares
I found this very easy to use, it certainly would make me ask questions if the facility I use was not an A! It's about time!
It's finally here
First Do No Harm
Finally we have an app that can help us choose a safe hospital. It has been a long time coming!
