SLUHN has Most Hospitals Top-Ranked for Safety

Of the eight hospitals in Pennsylvania to earn the prestigious Top Hospital designation from the independent hospital safety watchdog Leapfrog Group, half are St. Luke’s facilities:

• St. Luke’s Easton Campus, Top Teaching Hospital
• St. Luke’s Monroe Campus, Top Rural Hospital
• St. Luke’s Hospital - Allentown Campus, Top Teaching Hospital
• St. Luke’s University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus, Top Teaching Hospital

Additionally, St. Luke’s Warren Campus is one of just four hospitals in New Jersey to be recognized as a Top Teaching Hospital, and St. Luke’s Buxmont has been named a Top Ambulatory Surgical Center, the only one in Pennsylvania to receive the distinction.

“At St. Luke’s, quality and safety are baked into our culture,” said St. Luke’s Chief Quality Officer Donna Sabol. “When it comes to quality and safety, it’s not hyperbole to assert that no other Network can touch St. Luke’s.”

Leapfrog's Top Hospital award recognizes the highest performing hospitals in the United States in the Teaching, General, Rural and Children’s categories. It is based on objective data across many areas of hospital care, including infection rates and the hospital’s capacity to prevent medication errors.

More than 2,100 U.S. hospitals were considered for the award. Nationwide, only 134 hospitals were selected, including eight Top Children’s, 36 Top General, 15 Top Rural and 75 Top Teaching.

Last November Leapfrog released its 2024 Fall Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, awarding high marks to every St. Luke’s University Health Network hospital eligible for evaluation. Nationwide, only a few other similar-sized health systems, such as the Mayo Clinic, earned as many ‘A’ grades as St. Luke’s.

For the Leapfrog Top Hospital award, data is gathered and publicly reported through the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The survey compares hospitals' performance on national standards of patient safety, quality, efficiency and management structures that prevent errors, providing the most comprehensive picture of how patients fare at individual institutions. The data collected also enables hospitals to benchmark their progress toward Leapfrog's standards and measure the care they deliver.

“It is truly a joy to recognize the hospitals and ASCs across the nation that have gone above and beyond in their pursuit of excellence. Our Top Hospital and Top ASC Awards are among the most prestigious in the U.S. and deserve credit for role model performance,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “St. Luke’s has demonstrated that patient safety is their top priority, and we’re truly pleased to recognize them as a Top Hospital this year. Congratulations to hospital staff at all levels who made this national recognition possible.”

The full list of institutions honored as 2024 Top Hospitals is available at www.leapfroggroup.org/tophospitals.