{"id":64690,"date":"2025-12-18T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64690\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:53:11","slug":"6-sluhn-hospitals-top-ranked-nationally-for-safety-saucon-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64690\/","title":{"rendered":"6 SLUHN Hospitals Top Ranked Nationally for Safety \u2013 Saucon Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network <\/a>(SLUHN) hospitals have been named to the Top Hospital list announced Wednesday by Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit hospital safety watchdog.<\/p>\n

Of the 12 hospitals in Pennsylvania to earn the prestigious Top Hospital designation from Leapfrog, five are St. Luke\u2019s facilities; the only local hospitals to earn the distinction. St. Luke\u2019s Warren (NJ) Campus was one of only seven New Jersey hospitals to make the list. Only 156 hospitals nationwide made the list.<\/p>\n

The hospitals named to the list include:<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s Hospital \u2013 Allentown Campus, Teaching Top Hospital<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s Hospital \u2013 Easton Campus, Teaching Top Hospital<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s Monroe Campus, Rural Top Hospital<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s Sacred Heart Campus, Teaching Top Hospital<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital \u2013 Bethlehem Campus, Teaching Top Hospital<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s Warren Campus, Teaching Top Hospital<\/p>\n

Leapfrog\u2019s Top Hospital award recognizes the highest performing hospitals in the United States in the Teaching, General, Rural and Children\u2019s categories. It is based on objective data across many areas of hospital care, including infection rates and the hospital\u2019s capacity to prevent medication errors.<\/p>\n

More than 2,100 hospitals were considered for the award. A total of 156 Top Hospitals were selected, including 15 Top Children\u2019s, 52 Top General, 16 Top Rural and 73 Top Teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese prestigious recognitions are a credit to St. Luke\u2019s outstanding leadership, providers, nurses and other hospital staff and volunteers,\u201d said St. Luke\u2019s Chief Quality Officer Donna Sabol. \u201cWorking together as a team, we have designed and implemented a standardized approach to quality and safety that ensures our entire region enjoys local access to St. Luke\u2019s world-class health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, last month Leapfrog released its fall Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, awarding high marks to every St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network hospital eligible for evaluation.<\/p>\n

For the Leapfrog Top Hospital award, data is gathered and publicly reported through the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The survey compares hospitals\u2019 performance on national standards of patient safety, quality, efficiency and management structures that prevent errors, providing the most comprehensive picture of how patients fare at individual institutions. The data collected also enables hospitals to benchmark their progress toward Leapfrog\u2019s standards and measure the care they deliver.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year marks Leapfrog\u2019s 25th anniversary\u2013and the 25th year of the Leapfrog Hospital Survey\u2013making it especially meaningful to recognize our 2025 Top Hospitals and Top ASCs,\u201d said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. \u201cThese honorees are a testament to the extraordinary dedication of these facilities\u2019 entire teams, boards, clinicians, administrators, staff and community volunteers. You don\u2019t achieve results like this without everyone putting their heart into patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full list of institutions honored as 2025 Top Hospitals is available at\u00a0Leapfroggroup.org\/ratings-reports\/top-hospitals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This community health news is brought to you in partnership with St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network (SLUHN) hospitals have been named to the Top Hospital list announced Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,9747,153,2181,34451,28,7363,12241,1078,34452],"class_list":["post-64690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-awards","tag-bethlehem","tag-easton","tag-leapfrog","tag-pennsylvania","tag-safety","tag-sluhn","tag-st-lukes","tag-top-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64690","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=64690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}