CHRISTUS Health Earns Highest Rating for Hospital Patient Safety in East Texas

(EAST TEXAS) – Four CHRISTUS Health hospitals in East Texas have earned the top rating for health care safety from the Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization that assigns grades to U.S. hospitals based on their ability to prevent medical errors and harm to patients.

CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler, Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, Good Shepherd Medical Center – Longview, and Good Shepherd Medical Center – Marshall all earned A grades in Leapfrog’s most recent national hospital safety survey released today.

“These grades really signify a validation for our ministries serving our patients to the effort our teams put in to doing the right things right every single time,” said Chris Glenney, senior vice president for group operations for CHRISTUS Northeast Texas and North Louisiana.

This year, CHRISTUS Health announced expansion projects that include a freestanding emergency room in Henderson, emergency hospital in Palestine, and multi-specialty clinic in Sulphur Springs.

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade surveys and grades nearly 3,000 participating U.S. hospitals. Results are updated each fall and spring and are based on more than 30 national performance measures, including maternity care, critical care, elective outpatient surgery for adults and children, medication safety and complex adult and pediatric surgery.

According to Leapfrog, of the nearly 3,000 hospitals graded, less than one third received an A rating.

“These grades are hard to get. If they were easy, everyone would get them,” Glenney said. “For us to have multiple CHRISTUS ministries earn an A, it makes me very proud of the quality care we provide across the region.”

CHRISTUS St. Michael Hospital – Texarkana, St. Michael Hospital – Atlanta, and CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier also received A ratings.