{"id":184589,"date":"2026-03-09T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:38:07","slug":"florida-district-court-rules-leapfrog-used-deceptive-practices-for-hospital-safety-rating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184589\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida district court rules Leapfrog used deceptive practices for hospital safety rating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida March 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/sponsors.aha.org\/rs\/710-ZLL-651\/images\/20260309_Order-re_Bench-Trial.pdf?version=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled<\/a> in favor of five Florida hospitals in a case challenging the methodology used by the Leapfrog Group regarding hospital safety ratings. In particular, the court determined that Leapfrog\u2019s methodology violated Florida\u2019s unfair and deceptive business practices law. \u201cLeapfrog\u2019s change in methodology has no scientific basis, unfairly penalizes non-participating hospitals, and misrepresents hospital safety,\u201d Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks wrote. The court\u2019s injunction requires Leapfrog to cease assigning safety grades to hospitals, remove grades assigned to the plaintiff hospitals in 2024 and 2025, and issue corrective disclosures, along with other actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida March 6 ruled in favor of five Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-184589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}