Assignment # 10This assignment thrusts you into the role of an administrator with a mission to improve
a current problem. This could influence cost savings, productivity, staff satisfaction,
patient-centric experience, etc.
1. Review The Leapfrog Group PowerPoints that were shown in class today and are
posted in Course Materials.
2. Review the data pertaining to NJ hospital ratings on The Leapfrog website.
https://www.hospitalsafetygrade.org/
The November 2023 Hospital Safety Grade report produced by The Leapfrog Group is the
first to reflect hospital performance data from the post-pandemic time period. Recognize
that the data in these reports reflect a time period of about 2 years in the past. One pervasive
item cited is the patient experience, whose feedback indicates that it fell for the secondconsecutive year, to which The Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder described this trend as
“deeply concerning.”
3. Learn how to use the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
This short tutorial provides succinct instructions on how to
use the information contained on the report.
4. Select two NJ hospitals that attained a different rating (A vs. B, B vs. C, A vs. C).
When selecting each hospital, you can also see their prior ratings.
5. Select one of the major areas (see below) that interests you and then drill down to
the subcategories within it. Here you will see a rating that compares how the
hospital scored compared to others.
6. Look at the same statistic for your second selected hospital.
7. What is your recommendation on how to improve the results?
The Leapfrog Group
• The nation’s premier advocate of transparency in health care.
• A nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for health care consumers
and purchasers, using their collective influence to foster positive change in U.S. health
care.
Building a movement for transparency1
“For over 20 years, The Leapfrog Group has collected, analyzed, and published data
on safety and quality in order to push the health care industry forward. Leapfrog’s
bold transparency has promoted high-value care and informed health care decisions
— and helped trigger giant leaps forward in the safety, quality, and affordability of
U.S. health care. As we honor our past, we look forward to the next two decades of
encouraging better choices, fostering better care and saving lives.”
https://ratings.leapfroggroup.org/
The Leapfrog Group
Our Mission:
• To trigger giant leaps forward in the safety, quality and affordability of U.S. health care by
using transparency to support informed health care decisions and promote high-value
care.
Our Vision:
• We envision a future where purchasers will tie health care investment to excellence
and educate their employees on choosing the best care. Health plans will
support purchasers in their efforts to reward high performance and empower
employees. Consumers will fight for the best care for themselves and their families.
Providers will be courageous in championing transparency and leading
groundbreaking improvements.
• By living the vision, all of us will work to give the next generation the safest, highestquality health care system in the world.
https://www.leapfroggroup.org/about/mission-and-vision
The Leapfrog Group
• The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades report issued Spring and Fall
each year.
• Only ratings program based exclusively on hospital prevention of
medical errors and harms to patients.
• Fully transparent, independent, and free to the public.
• Assigns a letter grade – A through F – to 3,000 general hospitals
nationwide based on how well they protect patients from preventable
errors, injuries, accidents and infections.
• The Safety Grades employ 22 touchpoints from the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, in
addition to information from other supplemental data sources.
NJ hospitals make the grade in
spring Leapfrog assessment1
Jessica Perry//May 3, 2023//
All NJ hospitals received passing grades in The
Leapfrog Group’s latest Safety Grade assessment.
• NJ is a top-ranked state nationally based on number of A grades received in the Spring
2023, Hospital Safety Grades (search by hospital name, city/state/zip code, distance)
• NJ is the only state with 100% participation (68 hospitals) in the voluntary program
• 51.5% of NJ’s hospitals received A’s; nationally only 29% receive an A grade.
• 77% received an A or B grade, a 1% increase from fall 2022
• No Ds or Fs
• Ranked 6th Spring 2023; 12th Spring 2022
This is the first time in several years that NJ has avoided the lowest grades.
Across New Jersey hospitals, nearly:
Fall 2023
• 36% earned an A
• 39% earned a B
• 24% earned a C
Most NJ hospitals stay the course, but fall Leapfrog grades
show in-state dips*
Nationwide, infection rates improve as patient experience drops
Jessica Perry//November 6, 2023
Fall 2023 Hospital Safety Grades are out from The
Leapfrog Group. While the majority of New Jersey’s 67
participating facilities maintained their marks from the
spring, nearly 20 posted declines in the twice yearly
assessment.
Released Nov, 6, the report, which assigns a letter grade to
nearly 3,000 general hospitals nationwide, is the group’s first
to reflect hospital performance data from the post-pandemic
time period. And while facilities saw improved infection rates following upticks amid the onset of
COVID-19, when it comes to patient experience, feedback fell for the second-consecutive year.
In a statement, The Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder described the trend as “deeply concerning.”
Most NJ hospitals stay the course, but fall Leapfrog grades show in-state dips
F
A
L
L
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0
2
3
Carepoint Health-Hoboken
University Medical Center
308 Willow Avenue
Hoboken, NJ 07030-3889
View the full Score
Englewood Hospital and
Medical Center
350 Engle Street
Englewood, NJ 07631-1898
View the full Score
CarePoint Health-Christ Hospital
176 Palisade Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306-1196
View the full Score
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack
University Medical Center
30 Prospect Avenue
Hackensack, NJ 07601-1912
View the full Score
CarePoint Health-Bayonne
Medical Center
29 E. 29th Street
Bayonne, NJ 07002-4699
View the full Score
Hackensack Meridian
Mountainside Medical Center
1 Bay Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042-4898
View the full Score
Clara Maass Medical Center
1 Clara Maass Drive
Belleville, NJ 07109-3557
View the full Score
Hackensack Meridian Palisades
Medical Center
7600 River Road
North Bergen, NJ 07047-6217
View the full Score
F
A
L
L
2
0
2
3
Holy Name Medical Center
718 Teaneck Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666-4281
View the full Score
Saint Michael’s Medical Center
111 Central Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102-2094
View the full Score
Hudson Regional Hospital
55 Meadowlands Parkway
Secaucus, NJ 07094-1580
View the full Score
St. Joseph’s University Medical
Center
703 Main Street
Paterson, NJ 07503-2691
View the full Score
Jersey City Medical Center
355 Grand Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
View the full Score
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
201 Lyons Avenue
Newark, NJ 07112-2027
View the full Score
St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center
224 Hamburg Turnpike
Wayne, NJ 07470
View the full Score
St. Mary’s General Hospital
350 Boulevard
Passaic, NJ 07055
View the full Score
F
A
L
L
2
0
2
3
The Valley Hospital
223 N. Van Dien Avenue
Ridgewood, NJ 07450-9982
View the full Score
Trinitas Regional Medical
Center RWJBH
225 Williamson Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07202-3625
View the full Score
University Hospital
150 Bergen Street
Newark, NJ 07103-6750
View the full Score
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