Thank you for your interest in The Leapfrog Hospital Survey.  The Survey, Leapfrog’s hallmark public reporting initiative, was launched in 2001 and is now in its fifth version.  The Survey assesses hospital performance based on four quality and safety practices that are proven to reduce preventable medical mistakes and are endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF).  To learn more about the Leapfrog Safety Practices, click here.

Any hospital in the U.S. is welcome to complete the Leapfrog Hospital Survey.  The Leapfrog Safe Practices Leap (comprising 17 of the 31 NQF-endorsed practices) is applicable to urban and rural hospitals.

Visit the Survey's home page to learn more about it and participate in the survey effort.                                           

Click here for links to all of Leapfrog's Fact Sheets.

The survey data is publicly displayed on The Leapfrog Group Web site and updated monthly. Following focus group testing the display has been formatted and worded so it is easily accessible to consumers who are the primary audience for these data. 

If you have any questions about the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, please contact the Leapfrog Help Desk.

Why should hospitals participate in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey?

If the first three patient safety practices were implemented in every non-rural hospital in the U.S., over 57,000 lives could be saved, as many as 3 million serious medication errors could be prevented, and close to $12.0 billion could be saved each year (Lwin 2008).

In addition to the lives and dollars that could be saved by participating in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Survey aims to provide consumers and purchasers of health care with the information they need to make informed health care choices and promote the growing trend toward transparency in health care.  Our employer members make the survey data available to all their enrollees.  They also commit to work to implement incentives and rewards for safe, high quality and value health care.