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Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently gained perfect scores on the Leapfrog Group’s online hospital ranking system of safety and overall value for consumers, making BWH the only hospital out of more than 1,200 facilities that participate with Leapfrog to implement fully all recommended leaps.
“This is a tremendous accomplishment for the entire Brigham and Women’s community,” BWH President Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, said. “In addition to continuous self-evaluation, BWH shares patient-related and outcomes data with dozens of public and private organizations that specialize in benchmarking health care safety and quality to improve our care.”
The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of more than 170 public and private health care payers, providers, and purchasers founded in 2000, gathers data from participating hospitals and issues rankings based on four safety and quality standards: Computerized Physician Order Entry; evidence-based hospital practices and volumes; physician staffing in intensive care units; and implementation of known patient safety best practices.
Leapfrog’s scores are based on ‘leap’ measures that come from hospitals’ answers to survey questions. Hospitals’ scores are displayed online ranging from an empty circle to a full circle, and BWH has all perfect circles.