2025
June:
Webinar: Building a Safer System: The Role of Culture, Trigger Tools, and AI
Manual event reporting alone isn’t enough to keep patients safe. In fact, studies show that up to 86% of patient safety incidents go unreported. In this eye-opening panel, healthcare leaders and technology experts will unpack how automated trigger tools are transforming patient safety from reactive to proactive. You’ll hear real-world best practices, learn how auto-detection accelerates risk mitigation, and see how combining manual and automated workflows creates a fuller, faster picture of harm. Whether you're in quality, safety, risk, or clinical leadership, this is your roadmap to modernizing patient safety operations.
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December:
2025 Leapfrog Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner
Each year, the Top Hospital Awards and Top Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Awards are presented during the Awards Dinner. The Top Hospital Awards and the Top ASC Awards are widely acknowledged as one of the most competitive awards United States hospitals and ASCs can receive for patient safety and quality.
Learn more about the Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner.
Webinar: Fireside Chat on Navigating Patient Safety and Infection Prevention Under the New Presidential Administration
Don't miss this insightful conversation with C-level executives Leah Binder, President and CEO of the Leapfrog Group and Devin Jopp, President and CEO of APIC. In this leadership conversation, they'll share their perspectives on how the new presidential administration presents both opportunities and challenges to advancing patient safety and infection prevention.
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Webinar: Exploring the Link Between Healthcare Strategy and Experience of Care
As the landscape of healthcare continues to change and healthcare consumerism continues to be top of mind, patient experience is no longer just an indicator of patient satisfaction but rather a key strategic objective aligned with quality and safety outcomes. The goal of this webinar is to explore the link between patient experience and healthcare strategy and discuss how a patient-centered approach lends itself to greater strategic success for health care organizations.
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Webinar: The Path to Zero Harm: Implementing Hospital Harm eCQMs
Join us for an insightful webinar designed to help you navigate and optimize the implementation of Hospital Harm eCQMs (Electronic Clinical Quality Measures). This session will provide practical strategies and best practices to ensure successful implementation, drive technological improvements, and stabilize results for quality review, ultimately focusing on enhancing patient care.
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Webinar: Unlock the Secrets to Better Care: A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Health Outcomes
Join us for an insightful webinar where we dive deep into two powerful case studies that reveal how Leapfrog data can transform how we identify hospitals with top-tier quality scores. Learn how employers can leverage this data to guide their members toward higher-quality care, improving outcomes and driving healthcare success. Don't miss out on this opportunity to discover actionable strategies that can make a real difference in healthcare decisions!
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2025 Leapfrog Hospital Survey Boot Camp
Are you responsible for submitting a Leapfrog Hospital Survey for the first time? Don’t know where to start? Completely overwhelmed? This session will walk you through the entire data collection and submission process step-by-step, including an in-depth review of reporting requirements and deadlines, documentation, scoring, and public reporting.
Webinar: Achieving and Sustaining Leapfrog Straight A Hospital Recognition: Insights from an Expert Panel
Join a distinguished panel of healthcare leaders, as they discuss effective strategies for achieving and maintaining Leapfrog’s coveted Straight A rating and other actionable steps for improving patient care through technology, metrics, and collaborative efforts.
The panel will also dive into preparing for the measurement period of 2 relevant Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) beginning in January 2026 and impacting payments in 2028: Hospital Harm – Severe Hypoglycemia eCQM and Hospital Harm – Severe Hyperglycemia eCQM.
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Leapfrog Certified Coach Live Sessions
Are you responsible for submitting a Leapfrog Hospital Survey for the first time? Don’t know where to start? Completely overwhelmed? This session will walk you through the entire data collection and submission process step-by-step, including an in-depth review of reporting requirements and deadlines, documentation, scoring, and public reporting.
Leapfrog Certified Coach Program Info Session
Want to learn more about the Leapfrog Certified Coach (LCC) program? Join us for an engaging info session featuring Missy Danforth, Senior Vice President of Health Care Ratings at The Leapfrog Group, and Paul Alper, experienced Leapfrog Certified Coach.
2024 Leapfrog Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner
Each year, the Top Hospital Awards and Top Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Awards are presented during the Awards Dinner. The Top Hospital Awards and the Top ASC Awards are widely acknowledged as one of the most competitive awards United States hospitals and ASCs can receive for patient safety and quality.
Hand Hygiene For the Whole Hospital, Health Care Workers, Patients In Particular Children & Support Staff
Hand Hygiene For Healthcare Workers has seen significant investment but they only represent part of the Hospital Population. The Webinar broadened the discussion to include support staff and patients with a particular emphasis on Children and visitors. Professor Laird referred to her recently published paper on Hand Hygiene Resources for Children in Hospitals. Brooke Hossfeld discussed her experience on the training and motivation of support staff around Hand Hygiene.
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The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) Post Election
December 5th, 2024
Join our policy and legal experts as they unpack critical Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) provisions that present challenges for employers, discuss potential impacts of the 2024 elections, highlight current compliance issues and share best practices to address these challenges. Additionally, they explored policy solutions that could be considered in the coming year.
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Protecting Healthcare Workers from Toilet Plume Containing Infectious Pathogens and Hazardous Drugs
November 20th, 2024
This informative webinar focused on safeguarding healthcare workers from the risks associated with toilet plume aerosols (TPAs) which can carry pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, C. difficile and hazardous drugs used in patients with cancer. TPAs pose significant risks as they can linger in the air and settle on surfaces. The information presented provides significant insight on risks associated with current facility designs as it relates to uncovered toilets.
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Achieving Diagnostic Excellence: Resources for Hospitals
October 18th, 2024
Hospital quality leaders are invited to join us for a three-part presentation on resources and strategies available to hospitals pursuing diagnostic excellence. The resources featured are designed to have an immediate impact on patient safety and quality of care, and are directly related to Leapfrog’s ongoing initiative to recognize hospitals that excel at preventing harm from diagnostic errors.
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The Enemy Within: How Mattresses Act as a Hidden 5th Column Undermining Patient Safety in Health Care Facilities
October 16th, 2024
In the last 10 years, the FDA and ECRI have issued multiple safety advisories about health care mattresses. But today mattresses – the # 1 patient touch point –are still a vulnerability in addressing patient safety. Healthcare regulatory bodies, including The Joint Commission, and the AMA have renewed focus this year on mattress reprocessing. This webinar examines the scope of this issue, its impact on patient safety, misperceptions driving sub-optimal cleanliness, and options to address mattress reprocessing.
Aligning Employee Experience to Culture of Patient Safety
June 20, 2024
Panelists from two large healthcare systems will discuss how their organizations have aligned employee experience to patient safety culture. They'll discuss internal research demonstrating a link between the two and the steps each organization took to demonstrate this link in a practical way for front-line leaders. They'll also share how they've used new tools and technology to measure, understand, and drive culture of safety.
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Concrete Steps Employers can take with the new ERISA Rules
August 1, 2024
This webinar is part of Leapfrog's CAA Compliance Webinar Series and will dive into the seismic changes brought by the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 202 and its impact on employer-sponsored health benefits. Health Rosetta will present new, complementary resources to help employers comply with the CAA and maximize the benefits from their health plan investments. Speakers will discuss recent congressional activity on ERISA and other critical policy actions affect employer-sponsored health coverage.
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UVC Disinfection Technologies: What We've Learned
June 26, 2024
The webinar reviewed what we've learned over the past 15 years of UV-C disinfection in the health care industry. The presentation will share evidence-based practices to improve disinfection in health care settings, review studies on OR environmental contamination, on the environmental recommendations from the SHEA Guideline for Anesthesia Work Areas, and the AORN Guideline for Environmental Cleaning during room turnover and terminal disinfection. Learn how UV-C can be used as an adjunctive room disinfection technology and how to establish a UV-C Device Management Program for UV-C devices and equipment used in health care settings for disinfection. Join us to receive an update on future UV-C technology and the 510K process.
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Aligning Employee Experience to Culture of Patient Safety
June 20, 2024
Panelists from two large healthcare systems will discuss how their organizations have aligned employee experience to patient safety culture. They'll discuss internal research demonstrating a link between the two and the steps each organization took to demonstrate this link in a practical way for front-line leaders. They'll also share how they've used new tools and technology to measure, understand, and drive culture of safety.
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Leapfrog Certified Coach Second Session
May 23, 2024
If want to be able to offer your clients more expertise, technical support, best practices, and support, this training is for you. Display your Leapfrog Certified Coach Badge in your email signature, on your business card, on LinkedIn, and in promotional and marketing materials following successful completion of the training and exam. Receive an LCC (Leapfrog Certified Coach) credential and have your name published as a Leapfrog Certified Coach on Leapfrog's website. Choose one session date.
From Chaos to Consistency: The Power of Standardizing Cleaning Protocols
May 15, 2024
Exploring the benefits of standardization of chemicals, surveillance for transmittible infections, staff education, and infection prevention basis that apply to all areas to reduce the risk of infections. Reviewing the methods of cleaning and disinfection throughout healthcare, to include acute care, ambulatory surgical centers, long-term acute care, skill nursing, rehab, and senior facilities. Discussing the role of surveillance and changes in regulatory requirements for prevention of healthcare and community-based infection and the importance of communication between staff and care sites. Explore common themes of patient safety and staff engagement to drive better satisfaction results.
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Elevate Your Hospital's Diabetes Care Program with Glycare
May 7, 2024
Care for people with diabetes in hospitals is an emerging priority across the nation, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services debut new glycemic management performance measures, and Leapfrog partnered with ADA to launch their Recognized Leader in Caring for People with Diabetes Program. These initiatives are aimed at addressing critical safety issues with this patient population that makes up 30% of all hospitalizations. Patients living with diabetes suffer from higher risks of complications in hospitals and higher costs.
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Leapfrog Certified Coach First Session
May 6, 2024
If want to be able to offer your clients more expertise, technical support, best practices, and support, this training is for you. Display your Leapfrog Certified Coach Badge in your email signature, on your business card, on LinkedIn, and in promotional and marketing materials following successful completion of the training and exam. Receive an LCC (Leapfrog Certified Coach) credential and have your name published as a Leapfrog Certified Coach on Leapfrog's website. Choose one session date.
The Four Best Practices the Michigan Learning Collaborative Found at Leapfrog Superstar Hospitals
May 3, 2024
In 2022, Michigan Health Improvement Alliance (MiHIA) partnered with The Leapfrog Group and used Leapfrog Data to identify hospitals with sustained highest performance in CLABSI, CAUTI, and Falls/Trauma. On this webinar, leaders at MiHIA will share four best practices based on the shared learnings from a collaboration formed between these high preforming hospitals and a team of regional safety and quality experts.
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Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Deep Dive Session
May 1, 2024
Interested in learning more about Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grades? These are letter grades of A, B, C, D, or F that are calculated twice a year using 22 measures of patient safety that are publicly available. This session will provide an in-depth review of the Hospital Safety Grade measures, methodology, and key dates. It will also include a review of the bi-annual data review process and the Hospital Safety Grade calculator.
If you were unable to attend this session, a copy of the slide deck, recording, and Q&A transcript is available for purchase here.
Making Invisible Pathogens Visible: How To Prevent SSI’s Before They Occur
April 23, 2024
Did you know that the Operating Room has over 300 potential transmission pathways every hour? Are you aware of the current performance of your OR in terms of Surgical Site Infections? Learn about a comprehensive, evidence-based solution to optimize your Infection Prevention processes, leading to actionable improvements in reducing HAI’s and enhancing performance metrics for your facility.
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The Voice of Quality Care: The Patient Experience & Safety Connection
April 16, 2024
Healthcare is personal and safety is paramount; how we partner with patients to deliver high-quality care is more important than ever. In our complex healthcare systems, patients interact with a multitude of touchpoints along the healthcare continuum, and they possess the only first-hand knowledge of the experience of care being delivered to them. Consequently, their voice can be one of the best sources of information healthcare organizations can use to improve quality and safety. Join Jill Larkin, DNP, MBA, MSN, RN, CMQ/OE, and Kristine Keefer Wolff, DNP, RN, NEA-BC for a discussion on the ways healthcare organizations can embrace patient experience to improve the care they deliver.
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Deep Dive into Leapfrog Hospital Survey Measures included in the Hospital Safety Grade
April 16, 2024
Have questions about the differences between the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and Hospital Safety Grade? Need help figuring out how Safety Grade scores are assigned to Leapfrog Hospital Survey Results? This session will provide an in-depth review of the differences between the Survey and Safety Grades and the measures from the Survey that are used to calculate the Safety Grade, including CPOE, BCMA, ICU Physician Staffing, Nursing Workforce, the NQF Safe Practices, and NHSN infection data.
If you were unable to attend this session, a copy of the slide deck, recording, and Q&A transcript is available for purchase here.
How to Identify High-Value Family-forming Benefits
March 27, 2024
Family-forming benefits are increasingly recognized as a must-have for employers and employees. But how can benefit managers, CFOs, and company leaders know which benefits to implement? This presentation will discuss the innovative features necessary to choose a successful, high-value program that meets the needs of your company and your employees.
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2024 Leapfrog Hospital Survey Boot Camp
March 11, 2024
Are you responsible for submitting a Leapfrog Hospital Survey for the first time? Don’t know where to start? Completely overwhelmed? This session will walk you through the entire data collection and submission process step-by-step, including an in-depth review of reporting requirements and deadlines, documentation, scoring, and public reporting.
If you were unable to attend this session, a copy of the slide deck, recording, and Q&A transcript is available for purchase here.
Fireside Chat on Patient Safety with Devin Jopp, CEO of APIC
February 27, 2024
Leapfrog President and CEO Leah Binder sat down for a fireside chat with Devin Jopp, CEO of APIC—the largest network of infection preventionists. They discussed the future of patient safety, potential and realized national policy changes, and challenges ahead to identify problems and what our respective organizations’ plans are to address them.
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Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring: Empowering Hospitals to Protect Patients and Healthcare Workers
February 22, 2024
It is common knowledge that clean hands are the single most important factor in reducing the risk of cross contamination and Healthcare-associated Infections. Hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers remains low—less than 50% globally. Learn how electronic hand hygiene monitoring can help your organization monitor and improve outcomes through improving hand hygiene compliance.
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Spring 2024 Hospital Safety Grade Town Hall Call
February 20, 2024
Hospitals and other stakeholders will be invited to a free Town Hall Call to hear about changes to the measures and scoring methodology, as well as details of the Courtesy Safety Grade Review Period and important deadlines. The Town Hall Call includes a 40-minute presentation and a 20-minute Q&A session.
Fireside Chat on Patient Safety with PSQH
Preventable medical errors kill more than 250,000 Americans each year. While the number is staggering, the solutions to preventing errors are known and need to be prioritized.
In this 60-minute fireside chat, Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, will discuss the strategies that need to be implemented to help improve patient safety and reduce errors such as “never events.” This includes the recommendations made by The Working Group on Patient Safety, which was established by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and Leapfrog’s recommendations on how to reduce diagnostic errors.
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2023 Leapfrog Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner
The 2023 Leapfrog Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner was on December 5, 2023, at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. The meeting theme was “The Next Leaps in Patient Safety” and highlighted strategies to dramatically advance patient safety, from supporting the health care workforce to engaging patients to better use technology. We also spotlighted public policy initiatives that will guide fundamental—and much needed—change. Each year, the Top Hospital Awards and Top Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Awards are presented during the Awards Dinner. The Top Hospital Awards and the Top ASC Awards are widely acknowledged as one of the most competitive awards United States hospitals and ASCs can receive for patient safety and quality.
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Case Study in Improving the Safety and Quality of Diagnosis in Hospitals
Dr. Divvy Upadhyay, MD, MPH, leads diagnostic safety efforts at Geisinger in Pennsylvania. He was the Researcher-in-Residence at the Safer Dx Learning Lab and scientist in the Division of Quality, Safety and Patient Experience at Geisinger and will present approaches to driving improved diagnostic safety and quality by sharing lessons learned across different organizations, including Geisinger. Jill Dykstra-Nykanen, RN, MSN, CPHQ, Chief Quality Officer at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, will present how her organization has prioritized improving diagnosis across several quality of care interventions.
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Reenergize Your Nursing-Driven Patient Safety Strategies
The pandemic has caused Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) to return to pre-affordable care act numbers. Healthcare facilities and systems are faced with empowering and educating their frontline staff to return to excellence, while dealing with burnout and a new nursing workforce. This webinar will highlight key challenges in the industry, how to leverage the right internal stakeholders, and how to use simple, evidence-based methodologies to enable staff to return to basics to drive zero harm.
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Patient Safety by Race and Ethnicity: Leapfrog’s Enhanced Lives and Dollars Lost Calculator
Many employers currently use Leapfrog’s free calculator to estimate the price they pay—in lost lives and excess costs—for medical errors made in hospitals. This panel will explore Leapfrog’s new update to the calculator, estimating harm by race and ethnicity. Leapfrog CEO Leah Binder will moderate the panel with experts in patient safety measurement Dr. Matt Austin and Alex Campione, along with Paramount VP Michelle Martin, Leapfrog's Board chair, who uses the calculator. A short Q&A will follow.
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Become a Recognized Leader in Caring for People with Diabetes- A New Program of The Leapfrog Group and the American Diabetes Association
On November 1, The Leapfrog Group and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) are launching a new national program to recognize hospitals that are providing safe, high-quality care to hospitalized patients with diabetes, regardless of the reason for their hospitalization. Please join us on October 27 for a 1-hour webinar to learn more about the urgency behind this new program and hear directly from the experts about the measures that will be included on the application. The first list of Recognized Leaders will be announced in spring 2024. Participants will be able to ask questions throughout the presentation using the Zoom Q&A feature.
The webinar will include presentations from:
- Leah Binder, President and CEO of The Leapfrog Group
- Dr. Robert Gabbay, Chief Science and Medical Offer of the American Diabetes Association
- Tara Rose Murphy, a patient on our Expert Panel
- Dr. Guillermo Umpierrez, chair of our Expert Panel and Professor of Endocrinology at Emory University School of Medicine
- Dr. Andrew Demidowich, a practicing endocrinologist and our subject matter expert at Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Resources and Strategies to Improve the Safety and Quality of Diagnosis in Hospitals
Dr. Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, a patient safety researcher at Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt) based at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, will describe two new and compelling resources for hospitals looking to get started on the path towards diagnosis: Measure Dx: A Resource To Identify, Analyze, and Learn From Diagnostic Safety Events, and the Safer Dx Checklist, an organizational self-assessment tool with 10 recommended practices to achieve diagnostic excellence. The session will include 20 minutes of discussion and Q&A.
This is webinar #2 in the Diagnostic Safety and Quality Webinar Series which is part of the Judie Burrows Education Institute and is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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Universal Nasal Decolonization: An Unexpected Solution to Hospital Staffing and Financial Concerns
Today’s healthcare leaders are wrestling with a variety of issues, with staffing shortages and financial concerns being at the forefront. While many are looking to the latest software or AI to help with these problems, some are embracing a simpler approach – universal nasal decolonization. This infection prevention strategy is helping to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and related readmissions. Facilities employing evidence-based nasal decolonization can save hundreds of thousands of dollars in avoided uncompensated treatment cost and millions in additional revenue generated from increased capacity resulting from reduced lengths of stay. Learn what innovators are doing and the results they are reporting, with no capital expense and no software to buy or implement. Hear from two of the nation’s leading infection preventionists on how this work can improve financial outcomes and hospital staffing.
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The Fundamentals of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitals
Dr. Mark Graber, MD, Founder and President Emeritus of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, will review the current research describing how misdiagnoses are so frequent and devastating that the present a formidable and underappreciated obstacle to excellence in medical care in U.S. hospitals. The session will include 20 minutes of discussion and Q&A.
This is webinar #1 in the Diagnostic Safety and Quality Webinar Series which is part of the Judie Burrows Education Institute and is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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International Infection Prevention Experts Discuss Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene compliance is a key quality measure for infection prevention and control programs, patient safety, and quality of health services worldwide. It is one of the most simple and effective measures to reduce healthcare associated infections (HAIs). However, compliance rates are as low as 6% - 14% when assessed by both the WHO 5 moments and 6-step hand hygiene technique, and as much as 50% of avoidable infections are caused by poor hand hygiene. This session examined how hand hygiene compliance is measured, real-world challenges of hand hygiene, trends and future developments including the new international standard for hand hygiene, and the role technology can play in helping hospitals achieve compliance of hand hygiene standards.
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Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Policy Briefing: Advancing Quality, Safety, and Public Reporting
Join leadership from Leapfrog and Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) for an informational webinar on Leapfrog's national efforts to advance patient safety and quality measurement and public reporting in ambulatory surgery centers. The webinar will address how the Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of 2021 seeks to further align available quality measures for surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments, and address payment and patient access issues. Speakers include Missy Danforth, Vice President of Health Care Ratings at The Leapfrog Group and Kara Newbury, Director of Government Affairs and Regulatory Counsel for ASCA.
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Leapfrog's Never Events Policy and the PACT Collaborative Resources and Tools
Learn about Leapfrog's Never Events Policy, along with publicly available tools for communications and resolution programs. Jean-Luc Tilly and Robyn Nabi from The Leapfrog Group will present Leapfrog's Never Events Policy, including the individual elements with a planned update for 2023, and a review of scoring and national performance on this measure. Tom Gallagher, MD, Executive Director of the Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement and co-lead of the Pathway to Accountability, Compassion, and Transparency (PACT) Collaborative will introduce participants to new publicly available tools to guide hospitals as they design and implement communication and resolution programs (CRP).
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Are Employers Satisfied that Health Plans Drive Quality, Safety, and Value?
Leapfrog president and CEO Leah Binder presents the findings from new Leapfrog survey aimed to gain employer perspectives on health plan effectiveness in achieving health care quality, safety, and value. Employer leaders from The Boeing Company and Northwestern Mutual discuss the impact of the results. Leapfrog first administered and reported the survey results in 2020, so this year’s report serves as an update to see if any progress has been made over the last two years.
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The Leapfrog Group CAA Compliance Webinar Series Session 5: Fiduciary Oversight in Light of Mental Health Access Challenges
Mental Health Parity under CAA leaves many employers concerned as they try to comply with the law and its little to no guidance. Under the January 2022 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 report to Congress, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (DOL EBSA) found that no plan provided sufficient comparative analyses in its audit process, leaving many to wonder “are we next?” Will mental health parity audits continue into 2023 and will there be more than in 2022? What exactly does DOL want from plans or hope to know from the audits? What limits exist on agency authority?Join our panelists as they analyze the regulatory landscape and what is next for mental health parity audits.
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Safe Indoor Air: Top Experts Offer Advice For Future Pandemics
Leapfrog is bringing together leading air quality and infectious disease experts to discuss engineering guidance for the reduction of infectious aerosol exposure for a webinar on October 11 at 1:00 PM ET. Interventions will be discussed in the context of pandemic events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as opportunities for providing protective engineering design elements applicable to endemic diseases with infectious aerosol dissemination potential. Leapfrog President and CEO Leah Binder will moderate the conversation.
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Patient Experience During the Pandemic: Outpatient Surgical Care
This webinar highlighted Leapfrog's first report in its three-part series: Patient Experience During the Pandemic. The report on Outpatient Surgical Care found more favorable patient experience rating ASCs than hospital outpatient settings, and hinted at pandemic-related patient safety lapses. The webinar included reactions to the report from members of Leapfrog’s ASC Advisory Committee Carole Guinane, RN, MBA, FNAHQ, CPHQ, BBSS and Stephanie Jaross BSN, RN.
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The Leapfrog Greenlight Gala
Grand Hyatt, Washington, D.C.
A green light. It means go. It means keep going. It symbolizes momentum. The Leapfrog Greenlight Gala is the evening to show the world that our future is filled with “green lights” and continuous momentum. We are unstoppable in our efforts to empower patient choices, save lives and galvanize change. Funds from The Leapfrog Greenlight Gala will support the new Judie Burrows Education Institute.
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The Leapfrog Group CAA Compliance Webinar Series Session 3: Five Key Actions for CAA Pharmacy Benefit Compliance
Did you know employers have increased liability under the new Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), a federal law now in effect? Employers and other purchasers are responsible for cost-effective, high-quality pharmacy benefits and new reporting requirements for the first time. Join us for Session 3 in the free Leapfrog Group CAA Compliance Webinar series: New CAA-21 Pharmacy Benefit Responsibilities.
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Validation Institute Benefit Design Strategies Summit
This new summit brings together employers, benefits purchasers, brokers, and benefits consultants to discuss innovative approaches to benefit design that can reduce the financial burden without compromising on care quality. Leapfrog President and CEO Leah Binder is featured as a keynote panelist on the evolution of employer-driven health care.
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The Leapfrog Group CAA Compliance Webinar Series Session 2: New Mental Health Requirements: Are You Ready?
Employer health, EAP, and mental health benefits are siloed within your health plan. This delineation has enabled gaps in access, wait times, and payment parity for mental health vs. medical benefits. Join us for specific actions we recommend ensuring you comply with the CAA Mental Health Parity Requirements. Attendees will receive a free digital toolkit of templates and tips developed by Health Transformation Alliance and ERIC.
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Limited LinkedIn Live Series: Health Care Workforce Fatigue: Impact and Ideas to Support Health Care Workers
The healthcare workforce has faced unprecedented strain during the pandemic. While burnout has always been a significant challenge, it has reached a new level due to the impact of Covid-19. HCA Healthcare leadership will discuss the current state of the healthcare workforce, and its impact at the individual level and beyond. They will also offer strategies and resources that health care organizations can utilize to help support their healthcare workforce.
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Compliance Alert: 4 Things Employers Must Do Before Jan 1st: Your New CAA Transparency Fiduciary Responsibilities Explained
Many employers don't realize the new Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) will remove the gag clauses and provide a great deal of valuable information for Plan Sponsors. At the same time, Plan Sponsors are on the hook for ensuring that health benefits are cost-effective and high quality. ACTION is needed now; compliance is not only required, but it will also be beneficial in saving you money and producing better outcomes for your employees.
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Lessons Learned: Habits We’ll Keep and Habits We’ll Break Post COVID-19
Experts discuss the journey we've been on for the past 20+ months and the practices we've developed during this time. They share top ten practices, why they were valuable and if they'll continue post COVID-19 pandemic.
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Limited LinkedIn Live Series: Supply Chain Improvement
What investments have manufacturers made to rapidly meet demand throughout the COVID-19 crisis and prepare for the next pandemic? Join GOJO Industries, Ecolab, and Medline as they have a conversation about critical infrastructure and processes they have put in place to meet healthcare facilities’ demand and support patient safety and public health.
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Limited LinkedIn Live Series: Effects of COVID-19 on Health Care-Associated Infections
Join HCA Healthcare’s Dr. Kenneth Sands, Chief Epidemiologist and Jackie Blanchard, VP of Infection Prevention, as they discuss health care-associated infections in the age of Covid-19. This is the first talk in a new limited LinkedIn Live series from the Leapfrog Group and the Leapfrog Partners Advisory Committee.
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#UniteforSafeCare
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s virtual event, #uniteforsafecare aims to bring global awareness to the lack of safety in health care that the pandemic brought to light. The Leapfrog Group is a co-convener. The programming will follow two tracks so that both the general public and stakeholders from healthcare will find value.
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Lessons Learned in Infection Control Through the Pandemic
Leapfrog, in partnership with Newsweek and rule of three, LLC, a health care advisory firm hosted a webinar featuring panelists from the CDC, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), and esteemed providers from the front lines who reflect on COVID-19 and the path forward. Fred Guterl, Newsweek’s Special Projects Editor will moderate. Panelists include Dr. Michael Bell, Deputy Division Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Devin Jopp, CEO of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC); Jackie Blanchard, Vice President, Infection Prevention at HCA Healthcare.
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The Business Case for Quality and Transparency in ASCs
Leapfrog president and CEO Leah Binder and ASC Advisory Committee co-chairs Kathy Wilson and Linda Schwimmer discuss the benefits of participating in quality measurement and public reporting activities for business operations.
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Leapfrog Hospital Survey - Monitoring Health Care Inequity Town Hall Call
Leapfrog Town Hall Call covering Leapfrog’s approach to reducing health care inequity and the new Monitoring Health Care Inequity questions added to the 2021 Hospital Survey, featuring perspectives from members of the new Health Equity Advisory Committee
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Using Data to Avoid Low-Value Care
Leapfrog, in partnership with AHIP, featured both national and regional health insurance providers sharing how they use Leapfrog's data on the quality & safety of hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers to achieve higher value care.
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Habitual Excellence Starts with Safety: Before, During, and After a Crisis
Value Capture, Leapfrog and Prisma Health explore how leading with the goal of perfect safety for all propelled Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge Hospital to achieve status as a Leapfrog Top General Hospital in just two years.
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