A federal judge orders Leapfrog to remove safety grades for five Florida hospitals after ruling the scores were unfair ...

Poor grades assigned by the nonprofit watchdog to the Tenet hospitals in Florida were based on methodology that “has no scientific basis” and “misrepresents hospital safety,” a federal judge ruled.

A federal judge in West Palm Beach has ruled that The Leapfrog Group’s safety grades for five Palm Beach County hospitals were “unfair and deceptive,” ordering ...

$6.9 million. That’s the error tax “average US employer” pays for hospital errors, given 1,000 admissions in a year for all covered lives. The Leapfrog Group ...

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 ...