Quality Initiatives
Leapfrog Group
Joint Commission
Patient Satisfaction
   


The Leapfrog Group was formed by The Business Roundtable and numerous fortune 500 companies in response to a 1999 study by the Institute of Medicine that reported thousands of Americans die each year from preventable medical errors. The Leapfrog Group launched "a national effort to reward hospitals for advances in patient safety and to educate the public about the importance of hospitals' efforts in this area."

Today, the Leapfrog Group is a national coalition whose goal is to improve the patient safety, healthcare quality and overall value. The Leapfrog Group includes over 135 public and private purchasers who have agreed to specific purchasing principles to drive improvements in healthcare. The Leapfrog Group has worked with patient safety experts to identify three initial patient safety standards that serve as the focus of provider performance comparisons and hospital recognition and reward efforts.

The standards include: computerized physician order entry, intensive care unit physician staffing, and evidence-based hospital referrals.

 
Leapfrog Hospital Survey Results
 

Hospital
Name
City		 Leap1






CPOE		 Leap2






ICU		 Leap3

High Risk Treatments		 Leap4
Safe
Practices
Score		 Adherence
to Never
Events
Policies 		Survey
Results
Submitted
Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs
BELOIT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC Beloit, WI Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies 6/13/2007
CGH MEDICAL CENTER Sterling, IL Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies 6/14/2007
FREEPORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Freeport, IL Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies  
KATHERINE SHAW BETHEA HOSPITAL Dixon, IL Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies  
MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM CORP Janesville, WI Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies  
MERCY WALWORTH HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER Lake Geneva, WI Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies  
MERITER HOSPITAL INC Madison, WI Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies 6/13/2007
OSF SAINT ANTHONY MEDICAL CENTER Rockford, IL Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies  
ROCKFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Rockford, IL Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies 6/07/2007
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL Madison, WI Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies 7/31/2007
SWEDISH AMERICAN HOSPITAL Rockford, IL Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies  
University of WI Hospitals and Clinics Authority Madison, WI Computer Physician Order Entry ICU Physician Staffing Coronary Artery Bypass Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Esophagectomy Pancreatic Resection Bariatric Surgery Aortic Valve Replacement High Risk Deliveries & Neonatal ICUs Safe Practices Score Never Events Policies 6/11/2007


What do the results mean?
 
Fully implemented Leapfrog’s recommended quality and safety leap.
Good progress in implementing Leapfrog’s recommended quality and safety leap.
Good early stage effort in implementing Leapfrog’s recommended quality and safety leap.
Willing to report publicly; did not yet meet Leapfrog’s criteria for a good early stage effort.
Did not disclose this information.
Not Applicable - e.g. Pancreatic resection does not apply because hospital does not
perform pancreatic resections.
Not Targeted - Leapfrog members did not request the hospital’s response to these
questions but the hospital has voluntarily participated in other sections of the survey.
For rural hospitals, not all leaps apply. The Quality Index (made up of 27 NQF-endorsed Safe Practices) is the first leap that applies to rural hospitals.

Survey Info Scoring Info
Please note: Hospitals voluntarily submitted the information presented on this site. Hospitals that implement Leapfrog's recommended safety practices have reported that their internal processes of care include safeguards that may decrease a patient's probability of being exposed to a preventable medical mistake. However, no specific representation is made, nor should be implied, with respect to any individual patient's potential outcome by having a procedure performed at these hospitals. A hospital's placement in a quartile does not convey whether its risk-adjusted mortality rate is statistically significantly different from (a) the statewide average or (b) the risk-adjusted mortality rate of any hospital in its quartile or any other quartile.