Thousands of Americans die every year due to hospital mistakes. A patient safety nonprofit grades how well hospitals limit ...

A new national “Hospital Safety Grade” report from the nonprofit watchdog organization The Leapfrog Group ranks Connecticut ...

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 ...

The Leapfrog Group has released the Results of its 2013 Hospital Survey, an in-depth look at seven areas of hospital quality and safety: medication errors, maternity care, high-risk surgeries, ...