Orlando Health South Lake Hospital Earns 2024 Leapfrog Top Hospital Award for Outstanding Quality and Safety

Clermont, FL (Dec. 17, 2024) – Orlando Health South Lake Hospital was named a Top Teaching Hospital by The Leapfrog Group, highlighting its nationally recognized achievements in patient safety and quality. The Leapfrog Top Hospital award is widely acknowledged as one of the most competitive awards American hospitals can receive.

The quality of patient care across many areas of hospital performance is considered in establishing the qualifications for the award, including infection rates, practices for safer surgery, maternity care and the hospital’s capacity to prevent medication errors. To qualify for the distinction, hospitals must rank top among peers on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which assesses hospital performance on the highest standards for quality and patient safety, and achieve top performance in their category.

“Our providers, clinicians and team members have one shared goal, and that is to deliver the highest level of health care to the Lake County community,” said Lance Sewell, president, Orlando Health South Lake Hospital. “This award is a testament to them successfully carrying out that mission every day.”

Last month, Orlando Health South Lake Hospital earned its 13^th consecutive A grade from the Leapfrog Group, continuing its streak of being the only A-rated hospital in Lake County.

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health is a private not-for-profit, integrated academic healthcare system with $12 billion of assets under management, that serves the southeastern United States – including Florida and Alabama – and Puerto Rico. With corporate offices in Orlando, Florida the system provides a complete continuum of care across a network of medical centers and institutes, community and specialty hospitals, physician practices, urgent care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, home healthcare, and long-term and behavioral health care services. Founded more than 100 years ago, Orlando Health’s mission is to improve the health and the quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve. The system provided nearly $1.7 billion in community impact in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 23, the most recent period for which the information is available. For more information, visit orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter.)