Loma Linda University Health Earns Distinctions from Leapfrog Group

Stephen Reeder serves as CEO of The UCR Group, a real estate development group in Redlands, California. Committed to charitable giving, Stephen Reeder has donated to various organizations such as the Loma Linda University Health.

An academic medical center, Loma Linda University Health recently received multiple distinctions from The Leapfrog Group Awards. First, its Medical Center and East Campus hospital facilities earned "A" Safety Grades for quality and patient safety for fall 2020. Additionally, the East Campus hospital achieved the title of a Top Teaching Hospital, which is shared with only one other teaching medical center in the state of California. Between the two hospitals, more than 6,500 medical professionals and support staff assist in hospital operations.

The Leapfrog Group is dedicated to monitoring hospital quality in the U.S., and it releases its Safety Grades twice annually. To determine the fall 2020 grades, the organization’s team of healthcare service purchasers and employers assessed the quality of patient care, such as maintaining low medication errors, at more than 2,600 hospitals across the nation.