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September 19, 2024 
Multiple St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) hospitals have been named to the Top Hospital list by Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit hospital safety watchdog.
Of the nine hospitals in Pennsylvania to earn the Top Hospital designation from Leapfrog, more than half are St. Luke’s facilities. They are: St. Luke’s University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus, St. Luke’s Allentown Campus, St. Luke’s Anderson Campus, St. Luke’s Carbon Campus and St. Luke’s Easton Hospital
Additionally, St. Luke’s Warren Campus has been named a Top Hospital in New Jersey, and St. Luke’s Twin Rivers and St. Luke’s Buxmont have been named Top Ambulatory Surgical Centers.
Leapfrog’s Top Hospital award recognizes the highest performing hospitals in the United States in the Teaching, General, Rural and Children’s categories. It is based on objective data across many areas of hospital care, including infection rates and the hospital’s capacity to prevent medication errors.
More than 2,100 hospitals were considered for the award. A total of 132 Top Hospitals were selected, including, eight Top Children’s, 35 Top General, 15 Top Rural and 74 Top Teaching.
Additionally, last month Leapfrog released its fall Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, awarding high marks to every St. Luke’s University Health Network hospital eligible for evaluation.
For the Leapfrog Top Hospital award, data is gathered and publicly reported through the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The survey compares hospitals’ performance on national standards of patient safety, quality, efficiency and management structures that prevent errors, providing the most comprehensive picture of how patients fare at individual institutions. The data collected also enables hospitals to benchmark their progress toward Leapfrog’s standards and measure the care they deliver.
The full list of institutions honored as 2023 Top Hospitals is available at www.leapfroggroup.org/tophospitals.
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