#22 - HOW SAFE IS MY HOSPITAL

The Healthy Rotarian – How Safe is my Hospital?

The Leapfrog Group is an independent, national not-for-profit organization founded more than a decade ago by the nation’s leading employers and private healthcare experts. This organization seeks to make giant “leaps” forward in the safety, quality and affordability of healthcare in the U.S. by promoting transparency and value-based hospital incentives. 

The Hospital Safety Score was created and is administered by The Leapfrog Group, a national leader and advocate in hospital transparency.  The goal of saving lives by reducing errors, injuries, accidents, and infections, The Leapfrog Group focuses on measuring and publicly reporting hospital performance through the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The survey is a trusted, transparent and evidence-based national tool in which more than 1,400 hospitals voluntarily participate free of charge. 

The Leapfrog Group advocates for public access to quality and safety data from all U.S. hospitals, and we welcome you to contact your legislators to demand more information to keep your families safe.  Check out your hospital by going to http://www.hospitalsafetyscore.org/about-us/about-the-leapfrog-group

Nurse Sipple