The Leapfrog Group – Virginia (Hospitals)

The Leapfrog Group for Hospital Safety Survey

VBCH is the Virginia Lead (since 2003) for The Leapfrog Group. Our goals is 100% participation from our 89 invited hospitals, consisting of both ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ hospital.

We thank our Virginia-wide Leapfrog-reporting hospitals for their transparency, their improvement, and their strategic partnership with the VBCH.

We congratulate Inova Fair Oaks Hospital for achieving
“2012 Top Hospital” Read More 

EMPLOYER ACTION STEPS:  To maintain and improve, and promote consumerism, every employer is encourage to make these scores available to every employee and their family member.  Employers in communities with low-scoring hospitals could unite to make the hospitals’ individual scores visible.   Also, employers can ask their health plan administrators to use this information on all their websites and in designing Pay-for-Performance programs.

Check out these two reports:

 

We are very pleased to share that Leapfrog has been included in a USA Today patient safety awareness campaign published the week of April 1, 2013.    Anyone in the New York,
Washington D.C./Baltimore, Chicago, or San Francisco areas will find print
copies of the publication in circulation today through Sunday.

HOW ARE WE DOING IN VIRGINIA?

  1. Leapfrog Hospital Survey / Data: 3/30/2013
    1. 68.4% - Urban hospitals participate
    2. 26.7% -Rural hospital participate
  2. Early Elective Deliveries - Target: 5% Rate or less / Data 1/31/13:
    1. 14 Virginia hospitals met "Better than Target"
    2. 19 Hospitals are "Worse than Target"
    3. 13.1% - Average Virginia rate of Early Elective Deliveries; at least 14 state have better rates than Virginia.
  3. Hospital Safety Score - Updated: May 8, 2013
    1. 28 Achieved "A" Score  VBCH Leapforg A-List 2013MAY8
      Virginia Ranks 4th in the nation with 44% "A" Hospitals
    2. 17 Achieved "B" Score
    3. 16 Achieved "C" Score
    4. 3 Scored "D"
    5. 0 Scored "F"