{"id":43294,"date":"2025-11-24T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43294\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:58:09","slug":"lvh-schuylkill-among-jefferson-health-hospitals-to-earn-a-rating-in-safety-pottsville-republican-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43294\/","title":{"rendered":"LVH-Schuylkill among Jefferson Health hospitals to earn A-rating in safety \u2013 Pottsville Republican Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POTTSVILLE \u2014 Lehigh Valley Hospital \u2013 Schuylkill is among 12 Jefferson Health hospitals to receive an A-rating for safety from The Leapfrog Group, the Philadelphia-based hospital network announced.<\/p>\n<p>Also among those earning an A-rating, Leapfrog\u2019s highest, were Lehigh Valley Hospitals in Hazleton, Pocono and Dickson City.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono earned an A-rating for the fourth consecutive time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJefferson Health\u2019s mission is fundamentally about improving lives through compassionate, high-quality care,\u201d said Baligh R. Yehia, president. \u201cThis recognition is a direct reflection of prioritizing excellence in everything we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earning a B-rating were Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest; Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hecktown in\u00a0 Oaks.<\/p>\n<p>The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit, utilizes evidence-based measures in evaluating patient safety in the areas of errors, accidents, injuries and infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POTTSVILLE \u2014 Lehigh Valley Hospital \u2013 Schuylkill is among 12 Jefferson Health hospitals to receive an A-rating for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1057,182,139,28,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-43294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-schuylkill-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}