Items Tagged ‘The Leapfrog Group’
March 26, 2013
Saint Marys, Methodist hospitals to merge, become Mayo Clinic Hospital
Mayo currently has a single integrated hospital practice divided between two hospital licenses and two legal entities. Regulations require separate reporting of quality, financial and operating data to organizations such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission and The Leapfrog Group. “Separate hospital reporting has increasingly resulted in an incomplete and […]
Tags: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, data, hospital reporting, merger, Methodist Hospital, Post Bulletin, Saint Marys Hospital, The Joint Commission, The Leapfrog Group
June 8, 2012
Leapfrog Issues Hospital Safety Report Cards
A new “Hospital Safety Score” issued by The Leapfrog Group, a non-profit employer-sponsored organization enables anyone with internet access to check out which hospitals are the least, and which ones the most, likely to cause avoidable patient harm. “Though some hospitals surprised us, a good many did not, with highly regarded hospitals earning a safety […]
Tags: Health Leaders Media, Hospital Safety Score, NYU, The Leapfrog Group, Virginia Mason