NEWS RELEASE

                                    Contact: Kelly Webb-Little

Phone: 314-576-2376

Pager: 314-823-1874

Kelly.Webb-Little@stlukes-stl.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL AND ST. LUKE’S DES PERES HOSPITAL NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED WITH AN ‘A’ LEAPFROG HOSPITAL SAFETY GRADE

Chesterfield, MO, MAY 10, 2022 – St. Luke’s Hospital and St. Luke’s Des Peres Hospital each received an ‘A’ Leapfrog Safety Grade for Spring 2022. This national distinction recognizes both hospitals’ achievements in protecting patients from preventable harm and error.

“Providing high quality, safe care is at the core of our mission,” said Gretchen Blake, St. Luke’s network vice president of quality, patient safety and medical staff affairs. “Achieving an “A” grade demonstrates our deep organizational and individual team member commitment to caring safely for the communities we serve.”

The Leapfrog Group, an independent national organization, assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” grade to general hospitals across the country based on more than thirty national performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and infections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospital prevention of medical errors and harms to patients. The grading system is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually, in the fall and spring.

For more details, visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org.

About St. Luke’s Hospital:

St. Luke’s Hospital is an independent, nonprofit healthcare provider committed to improving the quality of life for its patients and the community. Since its founding in 1866,

St. Luke’s has grown from a single hospital location to an advanced network of care providing personalized healthcare services in over 60 specialty areas at its 493-bed hospital in Chesterfield, Mo. and 143-bed St. Luke’s Des Peres Hospital. It also offers more than 30 other locations across the greater St. Louis area, bringing quality healthcare services close to home. St. Luke’s is nationally recognized for high quality and safe care, consistently earning high patient satisfaction scores. In St. Louis, St. Luke’s is the exclusive alliance provider for the nation’s No. 1 heart hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute. For more information, visit stlukes-stl.com/newsroom.

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