When it comes to choosing health care, Carbon County residents have a choice: Do you want to choose a network that receives A grades for safety, or would you settle for one that only gets C grades for safety?

Both St. Luke’s Carbon Campus and St. Luke’s Miners Campus were honored when the Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit health care ratings organization, released new Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, awarding A’s to every eligible St. Luke’s acute care hospital.

St. Luke’s Carbon and Miners campuses are the only hospitals in the Carbon region to receive A grades by Leapfrog.

“You know St. Luke’s is truly awesome because everyone is saying it,” said Donna Sabol, St. Luke’s Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer. “This month it’s Leapfrog giving St. Luke’s A grades. Last month it was the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that ranked St. Luke’s the No. 1 health system in the country for quality, safety and patient experience, ahead of the nationally renowned institutions Houston Methodist and the Mayo Clinic, which rounded out the top three.”

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade assigns letter grades of A, B, C, D and F twice annually — in the spring and fall — to hospitals nationwide based on their performance in preventing medical errors, infections and other harms.

Both Carbon and Miners also received A grades for safety in the spring.

St. Luke’s is the only health care network in Carbon County that has accreditation for:

• Trauma Center Designation

• Chest Pain Accreditation

• Stroke Center Designation

• 24/7 In-House Critical Care Specialists

“Preventable deaths and harm in hospitals have been a major policy concern for decades,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of Leapfrog. “Significant variation in performance remains across U.S. hospitals ... All hospitals are not the same.”