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The Leapfrog Group—a consortium of public and private health care payers, providers and purchasers that rates hospital quality and safety—updated its online data this summer, and BWH remains the only one of more than 1,200 facilities that participate with Leapfrog to implement fully all recommended leaps.
The Leapfrog Group 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 full circles.