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TexasTowelie

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Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:34 PM Oct 2017

Patient safety highlighted in latest scorecard; UMMC Grenada gets F

University of Mississippi Medical Center has again found itself at the bottom of the latest patient safety report card with an F, this time at its Grenada campus.

In reviewing the data, local officials said they couldn't discern why the Grenada hospital went from a C to an F in the past six months.

"I got their data and frankly, I don't see how they managed to get an F scored off it," said Dr. Michael Henderson, UMMC chief medical officer, who spent most of his career at the Cleveland Clinic Health System, where he helped improve patient safety dramatically before coming to Mississippi in 2015. "The metrics, to me, look virtually the same as the metrics they had in April, so how the scoring came through I honestly don't know."

"I would not call Grenada an F hospital. It serves that community well," Henderson said.

Read more: http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/31/patient-safety-highlighted-latest-scorecard-ummc-grenada-gets-f/798816001/

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