Chief Healthcare Executive June 7, 2022
Ron Southwick

Healthcare leaders need to make safety a much higher priority, and employers are ‘fed up’ with the data they are seeing, she says.

When a federal study shows a quarter of patients are experiencing harm when being treated in a hospital, Leah Binder sees that as a grave indication that hospitals aren’t taking patient safety seriously enough.

Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, spoke with Chief Healthcare Executive about the safety of patients in hospitals. The interview came a few weeks after a troubling report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.

One in four Medicare patients (25%) experienced harm in a hospital, according to the report, released May 9. The most...

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