Regional Roll-Out Lead/Leader Organization Information

Name: Pacific Business Group on Health
Link: www.pbgh.org
Description: Large Employer Coalition

Contact: Cheryl Damberg
Title: Director of Research, PBGH
Phone: 310-396-7036
Email: cdamberg@pbgh.org

Why did your organization decide to apply to become a Leapfrog Regional Roll-Out leader?
As one of the founding members of the Leapfrog Group, the Pacific Business Group on Health firmly believes that health care organizations should be held accountable for the safety and quality of care they deliver to patients, and that this accountability is motivated via initiatives that publicly report results based on measure sets that have been deemed national standards.
 
In your view, what kind of impact has Leapfrog had on your market thus far?
It opened the door to a surge in statewide hospital level reporting efforts, which is now culminating in the CHART Initiative.  CHART is designed to publicly report the performance of California hospitals on a wide range of quality and safety measures.

Regional Roll-Out Market Information

Geographic coverage: California

Population: 36 million

Employer characteristics:

Number of employer/coalition lives in RRO area: 3 million

List of area’s largest employers:
Largest employers in state: California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), University of California, Stanford University, Edison International, SEMPRA Energy, Sharp Healthcare, University of Southern California, Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp, CISCO Systems, Boeing, Oracle, Applied Materials

Hospital characteristics:

Total number of general acute care facilities (total number of targeted hospitals broken down by hospital system)

Total number:  Approximately 380
Systems:
Adventist Health: 15
Catholic Healthcare West: 32
Centinela Freeman: 3
HCA—The HealthCare Company: 5
Kaiser Permanente: 29
Memorial Care: 5
Scripps Health: 5
Sharp HealthCare: 5
St. Joseph Health System: 9
Sutter: 29
Tenet Health: 21
University of California: 5

Insurer characteristics:

Local health plans and % of the market share for HMO/PPO products
Aetna: 3%
Blue Cross of California: 32%
Blue Shield of California: 11%
CIGNA: 3%
Health Net: 11%
Kaiser Permanente: 27%
Pacificare/United Healthcare: 11%

Other RRO-related Links: www.healthscope.org, PBGH sponsored web site with comparative quality of care information for health plans and medical groups