The James Earns Top Hospital Status Two Years A Row

For the second consecutive year, the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has been named among the safest and most effective hospitals in the country, according to a national ranking from the Leapfrog List. The James is among 65 hospitals from a field of almost 1,200 to be named 2010 Leapfrog Top Hospitals based upon a rating system that provides an up-to-the-minute assessment of a hospital’s quality and safety.

To compile the list, data is collected from hospitals on their progress toward implementing practices in four categories: computerized physician order entry to prevent medication errors; standards for doing high-risk procedures; protocols and policies to reduce medical errors and other safe practices recommended by the National Quality Forum; and adequate nurse and physician staffing. In addition, hospitals are measured on their progress in preventing infections and other hospital-acquired conditions and adopting policies on the handling of serious medical errors.

The Leapfrog Group is a consortium of about 150 Fortune 500 companies that pay for health care needs of an estimated 34 million Americans.

For more information, see the release from The James:  http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/viewer/press/Pages/index.aspx?NewsID=6162