Advisory Board December 18, 2024
The Leapfrog Group on Tuesday released its 2024 “Top Hospitals” list, recognizing 134 hospitals — including 68 Advisory Board members — for excellence in patient safety and quality of care.
Methodology
For the list, Leapfrog sorted hospitals into four categories and compared them to their peers. The four categories were:
- Children’s hospitals
- General hospitals
- Rural hospitals
- Teaching hospitals
To be eligible for recognition on the list, hospitals were required to:
- Meet Leapfrog’s standard for computerized physician order entry
- Meet Leapfrog’s standard for ICU physician staffing
- Comply with Leapfrog’s “Never Events” policy
- Meet or make progress toward achieving Leapfrog’s standard for billing ethics
- Meet or make progress toward achieving Leapfrog’s standard for informed consent
- Meet or make...
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