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May 28, 2010
Medical errors still a problem, speakers at Richmond conference say
Have we made progress in patient safety? asked Leah Binder, chief executive officer for The Leapfrog Group, a national patient-safety group. Binder said 1,200 hospitals participated in a 2009 safety practices survey, with mixed results.
read more>> Richmond Times Dispatch story
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February 2, 2010
Transparency Should Not Be a Luxury; It Is a Matter of Life and Death: What Purchasers and Consumers Can Do" ... Statement on Leapfrog’s Release of Central-line Infection Data
Leah Binder, CEO, The Leapfrog Group
Washington, DC--- For the first time, in 2009 The Leapfrog Group asked hospitals across the country on behalf of Leapfrog’s purchaser members to publicly report their rates of one of the most common and deadly forms of hospital-acquired infections: central-line associated blood stream infections, or CLABSIs.
Leapfrog is partnering with Consumer Reports Health to release hospital infection rates for 926 hospitals at www.consumerreportshealth.org. The online infection rates reveal tremendous variations within the same cities and even the same health care systems.
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November 2009
Snuffing out smoking ...Coalition is helping employers encourage workers to quit
"In December, a smoking ban takes effect in Virginia restaurants. Nonsmokers, no doubt, will welcome the change, but the law might add to the frustration of smokers who are struggling to quit...." read more>> irginia Business story
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September 25, 2009
HearSay by Kathy Lewis "Today we talk about the impact that proposed changes to the US Health Care system would have on employers and physicians locally with ER Doctor James Dudley and Barbara Wallace the CEO of the Virginia Business Coalition on Health. From the employer perspective, real estate executive Jon Wheeler of Wheeler Interests will join us as well. We'll also talk with Brooks Jackson of FactCheck.org who will help us sort through the rhetoric for a discussion on what has and has not been proposed. Join us!"
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September 2009
Health Care Reform: The Perils of Inaction and the Promise of Effective Action; A Report to
Business Roundtable by Hewitt Associates LLC "The debate over comprehensive health care reform is at a critical juncture. Fact and fiction are becoming increasingly blurred as the debate moves into the public arena. As the sponsors and purchasers of the bulk of group health plans in America, employers will play an important role in the eventual solution. The status quo is not an option for American business, and meaningful reform must address the delivery system inefficiencies that are driving up health care costs. Expanding health insurance coverage is critically important, but simply adding more people to an ailing system and spending more money will only make the existing cost problems worse. This report makes a case for the potential benefits of health care reform if it is done wisely." read more>>
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December 23, 2008
Diabetes Study Puts Focus On Disease's Cost, HealthLeaders-InterStudy Mid-Atlantic Health Plan Analysis; Fall 2008, Vol 8 No:4, (by permission of HealthLeaders-InterStudy), by Jan Shuxteau, "With the incidence of adult-onset diabetes increasing by some 90 percen t of the past 11 years in Virginia read more>>
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December 2008
Aligning Our Efforts to Transform America's Healthcare: National Priorities and Goals is a product of the National Priorities Partnership (NPP), a multi-stakeholder leadership group, convened by the National Quality Forum (NQF), and representing 28 of the top health care organizations in the country. read more>> The Report is an important complement to the IOM's two groundbreaking reports on health care: To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. The National Business Coalition on Health, VBCH's national trade association, is represented on the NPP by Peter Lee, Executive Director for National Health Policy, with the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH). The Executive Summary and entire Report (67 pages) is found at www.nationalprioritiespartnership.org
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September 2008
Virginia Coalition Launches HealthMapRx HealthLeaders-InterStudy Mid-Atlantic Health Plan Analysis; Summer 2008 Vol.8 No.3 p.3;(by permission of HealthLeaders-InterStudy)
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September 2008
Thinking Long Term ....Cutting employee health costs encourages them to manage chronic disease; By Marjolijn Bijlefeld Virginia Business September 2008 Issue, p.73 ...read more>>
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June 2008
"A study published this month finds that hospitals that perform well on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey have lower mortality and better quality of care than those who either didn’t perform as well on the Survey or who chose not to complete the Survey," the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety read more>>
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April 10, 2008, Norfolk, Virginia
Virginia Business Coalition on Health is Winners of the 2008 College of Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Great Science for Better Health Award read more>> story...............................
January 2008 Inside Business, February 25-March 2, 2008
Health Coalition to start a diabetes program by Mary Worrell (mary.worrell@insidebiz.com)
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January 2008
VBCH awarded Diabetes Seed Grant through the National Business Coalition on Health and the Community Coalitions Health Institute ...read more (Reuters) ...read more (Benefits Link)
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January 2008
Virginia Business Magazine, paid ad by VBCH; Thank You, Virginia Hospitals, for taking The Leap! read more>> Leapfrog-transparent hospitals in Virginian, and the members of VBCH that support the VBCH Regional Roll-out of the Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety Survey.
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"...NBCH Principles for Responsible Health Care Benefit Design..." ...read more>>
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May 27, 2007
The Virginian Pilot
Virginia companies attract national attention for corporate wellness ...read more>>
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January 15, 2007
Inside Business
"Taking a Leap" Inside Business Guest Opinion by Eileen Ciccotelli ...read more>>
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November 2006
Richmond, Virginia Business Magazine
"Does your hospital have safe practices?" ...read more
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October 16, 2006
Virginia Beach
Congratulations - "Sentara Norfolk General Among Top Hospitals in U.S. Recognized by the Leapfrog Group for Safety and Quality!" The story released first by Modern HealthCare, October 16 issue ...read more>>
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October 2006
Wellness in the workplace- Companies offer programs and rewards to boost employee health ...read more>> by Lisa Antonelli Bacon for Virginia Business Magazine
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"Remaking American Medicine" 4-part series airs in October on public television nationwide. For more information about the series, visit:
- http://www.pbs.org/remakingamericanmedicine/
- http://www.pbs.org/remakingamericanmedicine/links.html
- http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMAG/PubsNewsArticle/data/2006September/0609HHN_InBox_Quality&domain=HHNMAG
- Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Survey Results "VBCH Leapfrog Hospital Survey Results end 2006SEP30"
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Sep 06, 2006
(BUSINESS WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS, MN
...Model Drives Improvement in Health Care Quality and Efficiency by Engaging Consumers to Shop for Value; ...read more>>
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September 2006
Mid-Atlantic Health Plan Analysis; Virginia Passes Small-Business Insurance Bill (page 3) read more>>Health Leaders /InterStudy (a Decision Resources company)
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July 18, 2006
Chicago NBCH 2006 eValue8TM Results Offer Nationwide Analysis of Now Health Plans are Helping Consumers Manage their Health read more>>
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May 6, 2006
The Virginia Business Coalition on Health (VBCH), formerly the Hampton Roads Health Coalition (HRHC)(1983-Present), announces its Virginia-wide expansion. read more »
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May 6, 2006
The Virginia Business Coalition on Health (VBCH), formerly the Hampton Roads Health Coalition (HRHC)(1983-Present), announces its Virginia-wide expansion.
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