Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has again been named a Leapfrog Top Hospital for 2024, earning the designation among an elite group of children’s hospitals across the nation.
Monroe Carell is one of only eight children’s hospitals in the U.S. and the only one in Tennessee to receive a spot on the Top Hospitals list this year.
Leapfrog has published these unranked lists since 2006. This is the eighth time that Monroe Carell has made the Top Children’s Hospitals list, which was announced Dec. 17. Top Hospitals are honored at the 2024 Leapfrog Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C.
“I want to congratulate our teams for this special recognition,” said Meg Rush, MD, MMHC, president of Monroe Carell. “To achieve this honor over consecutive years shows our collective commitment to quality and safety across many domains. It truly takes all of you working together to make this happen, so thank you Monroe Carell teams.”
The Top Children’s Hospitals list designation adds to Monroe Carell’s performance-based distinctions for 2024. In October, Monroe Carell was named among the nation Best Children’s Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and recognized as the No. 1 children’s hospital in Tennessee and sharing first place in the Southeast.
The breakdown of this year’s list of 112 Top Hospitals is eight Top Children’s Hospitals; 28 Top General Hospitals; seven Top Rural Hospitals; and 69 Top Teaching Hospitals.
“We are incredibly proud to be recognized as a Top Children’s Hospital by Leapfrog,” said Carrie Menser, MD, Monroe Carell’s executive medical director of Patient Safety, Perioperative Anesthesia medical director and associate chief of staff. “This recognition highlights the dedication to quality and safety our teams provide for our patients each and every day.”
Children’s hospitals, as well as general, rural and teaching hospitals, selected as a 2024 Leapfrog Top Hospital must meet rigorous standards — the nation’s toughest standards for safety and quality — as defined in each year’s Top Hospital Methodology.
The selection of Leapfrog’s Top Hospitals is based on the results of the 2024 Leapfrog Hospital Survey, completed by more than 2,000 hospitals annually. Performance measures across many areas of hospital care that impact quality, safety and value are considered in establishing the qualifications for the award, including infection rates, maternity care and a hospital’s ability to prevent medication errors.
To see the full list of institutions honored as 2024 Top Hospitals, visit www.leapfroggroup.org/tophospitals.
