CLEVELAND – University Hospitals has been recognized among 33 hospitals nationwide as a leader in quality patient care by The Leapfrog Group. University Hospitals Case Medical Center is one of 26 adult hospitals and UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital is one of seven pediatric hospitals to have been named “Top Hospitals” based on The Leapfrog Hospital Survey. A rating system that provides an up-to-the-minute assessment of a hospital’s quality and safety, The Leapfrog Survey included more than 1,220 facilities.
The Leapfrog Group is a consortium of corporations and public agencies that uses its members’ collective leverage to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality and affordability of health care for Americans. The group encourages hospitals to publicly and openly report their quality and safety outcomes so that health care consumers can make educated and informed decisions.
Hospitals are invited to participate in The Leapfrog Group’s survey to measure their compliance with strict performance standards in patient safety as defined by the Group. These standards can include complex, high-risk procedures in addition to 13 nationally recognized safe practices.
“We are proud of this extraordinary achievement, which reflects University Hospitals’ ongoing commitment to quality and safety for our patients,” says Nathan Levitan, MD, UH Chief Medical Officer. “This is an exceptional recognition when you consider that more than 1,200 hospitals across the country participated in the Survey. Of that total, just 26 hospitals and seven children’s hospitals were selected as ‘top performers.’ UH Case Medical Center and Rainbow were included in this elite group.”
In 2006, UH Case Medical Center was one of 50 hospitals named to The Leapfrog Group’s inaugural “Top Hospitals” list. Results are based on the group’s voluntary Hospital Quality and Safety Survey.
Hospitals were selected for making great strides in achieving Leapfrog’s hospital quality and safety practices that include: computer physician order entry; evidence-based hospital referral, Intensive care unit staffing by physicians experienced in critical care medicine; and The Leapfrog Safe Practices Score, based on the National Quality Forum-endorsed safe practices that include 13 procedures to reduce preventable medical mistakes. Leapfrog results can be found at www.leapfroggroup.org. |