Schneck receives highest rating from patient safety group

Schneck Medical Center in Seymour has earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from a national watchdog group focused on patient safety.

According to the Seymour hospital, Schneck has earned the grade from the Leapfrog Group, the highest grade the group gives. The group is a watchdog organization that ranks hospitals based on more than 30 performance measures. Those measures look at a hospital’s errors, accidents, injuries and infections and what the hospital does to prevent them.

Leapfrog says preventable medical errors, infections and injuries that kill more than 500 patients a day in the United States. Grades are updated twice annually, in the fall and spring.

Schneck is one of two southern Indiana hospitals to achieve the grade , along with Monroe Hospital in Bloomington.