Leapfrog

According to the Institute of Medicine, each year between 44,000 and 98,000 people in the United States die from preventable medical mistakes made in hospitals. In addition, one million preventable medication mistakes occur annually. The key is that many mistakes are preventable.

VBCH is the Regional Roll-out Leader in Virginia for The Leapfrog Group. Since 2003, VBCH has been working with hospitals Virginia-wide to complete the Leapfrog Hospital Quality & Patient Safety Survey. To find out more about VBCH as a Regional Roll-out Leader, visit http://www.leapfroggroup.org/for_members/members_resources/regional_roll_outs/1277465/Virginia

 

The Leapfrog Group was founded by the Business Roundtable with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is guided by some of the nation’s leading medical and scientific experts. It was created to help save lives and reduce preventable medical mistakes by giving consumers the information they need to make more informed healthcare choices. Key to its mission is promoting a transparent marketplace where hospital and physician quality and value are readily discernable by the public and superior providers are rewarded.

To review Leapfrog data for Virginia hospitals, visit www.leapfroggroup.org (or Leapfrog Links: http://www.leapfroggroup.org/cp, click on “Consumers”, and then select “By State” and then “Virginia,” and then “search.”

To download a PDF of the Leapfrog Hospital Quality & Patient Safety Survey (data submitted September 30, 2006) ...click here

 

With the help of leading healthcare and research experts, The Leapfrog Group identified four proven safety practices to prevent medical mistakes in hospitals; these four practices will save lives. Adoption of these practices could save nearly 60,000 lives and prevent more than 500,000 medication errors annually:

• Using computer physician order entry (CPOE)
• Selecting hospitals with the proven outcomes or extensive experience with select high risk conditions and procedures (Evidence-based Hospital Referral)
• Staffing Intensive Care Units with trained physician specialists (ICU)
• The National Quality Forum Safe Practices – Leapfrog scores hospitals’ progress on the 27 NQF Safe Practices

 

The Leapfrog Group Fact Sheet: http://www.leapfroggroup.org/about_us/leapfrog-factsheet

FOR HOSPITALS:  http://www.leapfroggroup.org/for_hospitals  

FOR CONSUMERS: http://www.leapfroggroup.org/for_consumers