In early March of 2024, my mother had a health emergency. The hospital staff at St. Michael’s Medical Center in Silverdale, thankfully, saved her life.
The Leapfrog Group website gives out hospital safety grades for medical centers all over America.
The grades from medical experts come from highly accredited institutions like Harvard, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Stanford, UC Davis, Vanderbilt, and the CDC.
The recent 2025 report card now shows 49 hospitals that were graded on how each institution deals with:
- Infections
- Problems with surgery,
- Safety problems like falls, collapsed lungs, and blood clots,
- What measures do they have in place to prevent errors?
- Training of the doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff.
- How well they communicate with each other.
16 WA Hospitals Recently Earned an “A” rating
Capital Medical Center (Olympia)…