Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Middle Tennessee hospital has received a low safety grade from The Leapfrog Group, according to its ...

Does bigger mean better when it comes to hospital safety? A new grading of U.S. hospitals from the patient safety organization Leapfrog Group suggests hospitals that get high marks on limiting ...

In what’s surely every patient’s nightmare, foreign objects such as surgical sponges sometimes get left behind inside the body during surgery. It happens only rarely, but to help avoid it, health care ...

Several Connecticut hospitals are considered among the safest in the country, according to a new Leapfrog study, but not all of them earned high marks. The healthcare nonprofit just released its fall ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to include comment from Tenet Healthcare. A federal judge in Florida has sided with five hospitals that challenged the biannual grading system of the health ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Middle Tennessee hospital has received a low safety grade from The Leapfrog Group, according to its latest report. The hospital safety advocacy organization reported ...