When it comes to NHRMC, the headline news over the last two weeks has been hospital safety and quality grades, which have once again been disappointingly mediocre, at best.
The national nonprofit Leapfrog, which acts as a watchdog issuing safety and quality ratings every six months, gave NHRMC a C for the fourth time in two years. And the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, upgraded NHRMC from two to three out of five stars for hospital quality and safety — but downgraded the hospital’s patient survey ranking from three to two stars.
For the past two years, this has been the story: Novant NHRMC gets poor or middling rankings, acknowledges that they’re bad, but argues that the rankings are based on old data and the current conditions are far better…