LCMC Health announced that four of its hospitals have earned an “A” hospital safety grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national leader and advocate in hospital transparency. Leapfrog assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” grade to general hospitals across the country based on over 30 measures of errors, accidents, injuries, and infections as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent them.  

Hospitals that earned an “A” hospital safety grade from The Leapfrog Group include:

•    East Jefferson General Hospital

•    Lakeside Hospital

St. Tammany Health System cut the ribbon on a new family medicine clinic in north Covington that, in addition to expanding access to medical care for local residents, will educate the region’s next generation of family medicine physicians as part of the health system’s first-in-the-region family medicine residency program.