“Implementing The Leapfrog Group's purchasing principles, starting with the Leapfrog Hospital Safety and Quality Survey and working with hospitals to implement the leaps, has been the most powerful tool employers have had to facilitate change in the Memphis market in the last decade.”

Cristie Travis, President and CEO of Memphis Business Group on Health and Former Regional Roll-Out Leader and Leapfrog Board Chair

Leapfrog coordinates and supports our members’ work at both the national and local levels. Work conducted at the local level is spearheaded by Leapfrog employer/employer coalition volunteers who commit to initiate and lead what Leapfrog calls Regional Roll-Outs (RROs). Regional Roll-Outs are local efforts in markets where Leapfrog members work with other stakeholders to advance Leapfrog’s mission by increasing the transparency of the quality of individual hospitals.

We use the  Regional Roll-Out strategy to integrate community-wide, multi-stakeholder collaboration into its national, purchaser-driven initiative. Regional Roll-Out leaders invite local purchasers, hospitals, health plans, physicians, labor unions, consumer groups, and others to participate in implementing the Leapfrog action plan. These stakeholders develop community-focused goals that align with Leapfrog’s purchasing principles.

The Regional Roll-Out leaders’ main task is to encourage local hospitals to publicly report their progress on the implementation of Leapfrog’s four recommended quality and safety practices or ‘leaps’: implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, staffing ICUs with intensivists, referring patients to hospitals with the best results for treating certain high risk conditions and other safe practices endorsed by the National Quality Forum. They perform this task by inviting hospitals’ participation in the Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety Survey. Regional leaders then use this information to inform local consumers and reward and recognize top performing hospitals.

For more information on how the Roll-Outs workview our RRO Fact Sheet and visit our RRO market page.

To access Leapfrog's password protected RRO Intranet Site click here.

For more infomration about Regional Roll-Outs contact Rachel Weissburg at rweissburg@leapfroggroup.org or 202.292.6725.