The Leapfrog Hospital Survey ~ www.leapfroggroup.org/cp

Clink on one of these links to see provider quality data:

VBCH Virginia Report - Leapfrog Hospital Survey

The Commonwealth Fund

Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections

Hospitals: click here for more info on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey

THE PROBLEM:

• DEATHS ~ According to the Institute of Medicine 1999 report, To Err Is Human, each year between 44,000 and 98,000 people die from preventable medical mistakes made in hospitals

• INJURY ~ in addition, one million preventable medication mistakes occur annually.

THE SOLUTION:

• PREVENT the medical errors! 
  Ten years later ... are we any safer? 

Reported are these facts:

• If three Leapfrog standards were implemented in all U.S. urban hospitals (ICU staffing; CPOE; higher-performing hospitals for high-risk procedures), the nation could save up to 57,000 lives, avoid as many as 3 million adverse drug events and save up to $12 billion in health care costs each year. (source: Lwin AK, Shepard DS. Estimating Lives and Dollars Saved from Universal Adoption of the Leapfrog Safety and Quality Standards: 2008 Update. The Leapfrog Group. Washington, DC: 2008)
• A study in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety found that hospitals that performed adequately on the Leapfrog Survey have lower mortality rates and better quality of care than hospitals that declined.

• Does Quality Reporting Matter? 

  Yes it does..... "Commitment to Quality and Safety [is] Linked to Higher Patient Satisfaction is US Hospitals"...read more Press_Ganey_-_Leapfrog_release

The Virginia Business Coalition on Health:

~ Member of The Leapfrog Group

~ Leader for the Virginia-wide roll-out of The Leapfrog Hospital Survey

~ Data Partner for The Leapfrog Group

~ Member of the DC/Baltimore Roll-out

The Leapfrog Group was founded by the Fortune 500 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.  Click Here for more information on the Virginia Regional Roll-out Leader.

 

EMPLOYERS: How is the Leapfrog data used?

• Used for contracting with hospitals
• Open enrollment education
• Pay-for-performance programs, including 2nd generation of Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program
• Various incentives across 37 regions

CONSUMERS: The Leapfrog Group'S Four Key Questions
The four key questions consumers should be asking when they are making decisions about their hospital care are:

• Does the hospital use a computerized physician order entry system (CPOE system)?
• Does the hospital have a high rate of good results or extensive experience with the specific procedures or diagnoses?
• Is the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) adequately staffed by physicians and other caregivers who are specifically trained in intensive care?
• Does the hospital have a high Leapfrog Quality Index? Thismeans the hospital has put in place up to 27 practices known to reduce preventable medical mistakes. 

WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THE LEAPFROG HOSPITAL SURVEY?

• The Survey is the only public source on adoption of CPOE, hospital efficiency, adoption of endorsed safe practices, survival predictors, presence of an ICU intensivist, and risk-adjusted mortality rates for certain high-risk procedures.
• The Survey is the private sector’s consensus public reporting initiative.
• The Survey questions are consistent with measures used by organizations such as The Joint Commission, National Quality Forum (NQF) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Click Here to to view the video The Quality Choir: From Warm-Up to Harmony

The VBCH Regional Roll-out includes the following MSAs:

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA MSA
Charlottesville, VA MSA
Danville, VA MSA
Harrisonburg, VA MSA
Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol (Tri-Cities), TN-VA CSA
Lynchburg, VA MSA
Richmond, VA MSA
Roanoke, VA MSA
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA