Today, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) proudly hosted a Capitol Hill briefing, highlighting the critical need to update anesthesia monitoring standards to include continuous blood ...

Good afternoon and welcome to this fortnight’s edition of the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, this time from me, Jeremy. Let’s dive in – starting with the not unfamiliar theme of maternity safety, ...

Solano County hospitals scored high marks in patient safety, according to a new report from The Leapfrog Group. Leapfrog is a national hospital watchdog organization and scores for area hospitals a… ...

Staff shortages and assessment delays are among patient safety concerns at Dundee's Ninewells Hospital.

NHS England has launched the “Being Fair” tool to help organisations respond fairly when safety incidents raise concerns about an individual’s conduct. Replacing the 2018 Just Culture Guide, it aligns ...

The three Michigan hospitals ranked in the bottom 1% nationally for patient safety, raising serious concerns about healthcare quality in a predominantly Black community.

A group of South Florida hospitals in Palm Beach County are suing Leapfrog Group, claiming its patient safety grades are rigged and endangering patient safety.

Three UCSF Health hospitals received “A” ratings in the spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit watchdog focused on patient safety.

And the findings are alarming. We discovered that poor communication was the sole cause of patient-safety incidents in over one in ten cases and contributed to causing incidents in one in four cases.

With its spring rankings coming soon, the LeapFrog Hospital Safety’s fall survey lists four Mass. hospitals as having low grades for safety.

Poor communication contributed to 24% of safety incidents in 42 studies that examined its contribution along with other causes.