McLaren Port Huron received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit upholding the standard of patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. This national distinction celebrates McLaren Port Huron’s achievements in prioritizing patient safety by protecting patients from preventable harm and errors. The new grades reflect performance primarily during the height of the pandemic and reflect the hospital’s performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other harm to patients in their care, as well as patient experience.
“This honor is a testament to the care and commitment of the incredible team at McLaren Port Huron,” said Eric Cecava, president and CEO at McLaren Port Huron. “Given the extraordinary challenges we’ve faced over the past few years, this grade is even more impressive. Our team never loses sight of the critical need to provide high quality care in a compassionate and safe environment.”
Developed under the guidance of a national expert panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to hospitals twice a year. The methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.
About McLaren Port Huron
McLaren Port Huron is a 186-bed non-profit hospital located in Port Huron, Michigan. Founded in 1882, it has a strong history of providing quality, compassionate care to residents living in St. Clair and Sanilac counties. McLaren Port Huron provides a full range of services, including cardiovascular care at the James C. Acheson Heart and Vascular Center, award-winning cancer services at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, comprehensive orthopedic services and general, bariatric and robotic-assisted surgeries. The hospital is the area’s only nationally verified as a Level III Trauma Center and Certified Primary Stroke Center. Learn more at www.mclaren.org/ph.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $6.6 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 14 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 53 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Learn more at mclaren.org.