| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.08.2026 | Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group Now Accepting Nominations for the Annual Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO | The Steven Schroeder Award recognizes a hospital and/or health system CEO who is demonstrating courageous and ethical leadership addressing the twin issues of affordability and quality of health care in their community.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Au... |
| 06.05.2026 | UCMC gets 29th 'A' for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group | The University of Chicago Medical Center has earned its 29th “A” grade for hospital and patient safety from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit focused on improving healthcare quality and transparency.
This latest recognit... |
| 01.04.2026 | Prime Healthcare: $104 Million Invested In Illinois Hospitals To Expand Care And Save 13,000 Jobs | Prime Healthcare has invested more than $104 million in its first year operating in Illinois, strengthening hospital operations, expanding clinical services, and preserving over 13,000 healthcare jobs while creating more than 1,000 new role... |
| 20.12.2025 | University of Chicago Medical Center earns Leapfrog Group’s 'Top Teaching Hospital' for 8th time | Leapfrog President and CEO Leah Binder, left, presented the Top Teaching Hospital award to a team representing UChicago Medicine: Samantha Ruokis, VP for Clinical Excellence (University of Chicago Medical Center); Dr. Chrissy Babcock, Assoc... |
| 15.12.2025 | Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group Honor Hartford HealthCare CEO Jeffrey A. Flaks with Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare Leadership | Mr. Jeffrey A. Flaks, Hartford HealthCare President and CEO, awarded for addressing both the quality and affordability of healthcare.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group today announced that ... |
| 12.08.2025 | Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group Now Accepting Nominations for the Annual Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO | Steven Schroeder, MD
The Steven Schroeder Award recognizes a hospital and/or health system CEO who is demonstrating courageous and ethical leadership addressing the twin issues of affordability and quality of health care in their community.... |
| 13.05.2025 | Palomar Medical Center Escondido and Poway Earn an ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group | Palomar Medical Center Escondido and Poway earned an “A” from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit watchdog focused on patient safety.
New Grade for spring 2025 is a national recognition for Palomar Health’s commitment to p... |
| 17.12.2024 | Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group Present Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO to Mr. Richard A. Anderson | Mr. Richard A. Anderson
St. Luke's University Health Network President and CEO, Mr. Richard A. Anderson, awarded for addressing both the quality and affordability of healthcare.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Steven Sch... |
| 15.11.2024 | University of Chicago Medical Center Receives 26th Consecutive “A” in Hospital Safety from Leapfrog Group | The University of Chicago Medical Center received its 26th consecutive “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a healthcare industry watchdog. This honor recognizes the collective commitment of employees to provide patients with ... |
| 20.08.2024 | Interoperability: The Missing Link to Combat Nurse Burnout | Elizabeth Anderson MSN, RN, Director of Clinical Experience and Solutions at Rauland
The American Organization for Nursing Leadership recently published a report that reinforces the troublesome trend in healthcare: Nearly one-fifth of nurse... |
| 03.08.2024 | Excellence in Healthcare: AHN Wexford Hospital and Highmark Health Lead the Way | In the landscape of American healthcare, excellence shines through like a beacon. Two entities, AHN Wexford Hospital and Highmark Health, are setting the standard. Their recent accolades highlight a commitment to quality, safety, and inclus... |
| 01.08.2024 | AHN Wexford Hospital Earns Prestigious Awards for Quality, Safety and Patient Experience | AHN Wexford Hospital
Among a slew of accolades garnered this year by AHN's newest full-service hospital, Wexford Hospital recently received a 5-star rating from CMS – the highest possible rating for overall hospital quality
WEXFORD, Pa., Au... |
| 01.08.2024 | Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group Now Accepting Nominations for the Annual Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO | Dr. Steven Schroeder
The Steven Schroeder Award recognizes a hospital and/or health system CEO who is demonstrating courageous and ethical leadership addressing the twin issues of affordability and quality of health care in their community.... |
| 10.05.2024 | Health | ‘Birthing friendly’ label requires little effort by hospitals | What’s more, many of the hospitals that have received the designation perform cesarean sections above the recommended levels, which could indicate overuse of the procedure. C-sections are considered riskier than vaginal birth, with a longer... |
| 10.05.2023 | “Innovators for Leapfrog” Launching to Fuel Investment in Patient Safety | Leapfrog Group announces a new resource for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and employers invested in patient safety called Innovators for Leapfrog
“We are proud to be part of the Innovators of Leapfrog because we share the sam... |
| 09.05.2023 | “Innovators for Leapfrog” Launching to Fuel Investment in Patient Safety | “We are proud to be part of the Innovators of Leapfrog because we share the same mission of making hospitals safer for patients," said Katie Treptow, MBA, Senior Director of Marketing, Medline.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 09, 2023
WASHI... |
| 05.05.2023 | Nozin, Makers of Nozin® Nasal Sanitizer® Antiseptic, Announces Partnership with The Leapfrog Group | Nozin® Nasal Sanitizer® antiseptic “We know that the nose is a critical source of infection risk, and we are proud to have the leading innovator in nasal decolonization, Nozin, makers of Nozin® Nasal Sanitizer® antiseptic, as part of Leapfr... |
| 01.05.2023 | A deep tech investor predicts these 3 AI startups will become the decacorns of this decade with valuations of over $100 billion | Amir Khan is a deep tech investor who's known about ChatGPT for 10 years.
He lists three startups he wishes he had invested in years ago.
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| 01.05.2023 | A deep tech investor predicts these 3 AI startups will become the decacorns of this decade with valuations of over $100 billion | Amir Khan thinks that there will be a significant increase in AI and machine learning technologies in the commercial sector by 2030. OpenAI
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| 06.12.2022 | Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group Present Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO to J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS | J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS “Accessible, affordable, and exceptional patient care is at the center of what we do at Inova."
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) December 06, 2022
The Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO was presented at ... |
| 17.10.2022 | The Case for Incorporating Patient Perspectives into Clinical Decision Support | Greg Samios, President & CEO of Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer, Health
A recent report from the Leapfrog Group found that patient experience scores at hospitals declined during the pandemic. This should be no surprise. Hospitals... |
| 30.08.2022 | Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group Now Accepting Nominations for the Annual Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO | Joanne M. Conroy, MD, CEO and President of Dartmouth Health No matter how tough the challenge is, we can do what needs to be done with humanity, integrity, and respect for everyone involved. - Dr. Conroy
BOSTON (PRWEB) August 30, 2022
Costs... |
| 20.05.2022 | To improve safety, hospitals should make ‘radical transparency’ real — and accessible | Covid-19 may be receding, but it’s leaving a quiet menace lurking in hospitals in its wake.
In a Perspective essay in The New England Journal of Medicine, four senior physicians with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the ... |
| 07.12.2021 | Costs of Care Presents Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO to Joanne M. Conroy, MD, at The Leapfrog Group Annual Meeting | Joanne M. Conroy, MD, CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health "The amount of money someone has in their bank account or their zip code shouldn’t be a barrier to receiving the best care possible." - ... |
| 07.12.2021 | Johns Hopkins All Children’s Only in Tampa Bay Area Named As a Leapfrog Top Children’s Hospital | Even with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, our amazing team remained laser focused on our mission and our commitment to providing top quality and safe care to children in our community and beyond.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (PRWEB) Decemb... |
| 12.08.2021 | Costs of Care and The Leapfrog Group Now Accepting Nominations for the Annual Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO | Mr. Carl S. Armato, President and CEO of Novant Health, recipient of the 2020 Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO "This award recognizes leaders that make an impact among the corollary issues of affordability and qual... |
| 08.07.2021 | New report by The Leapfrog Group indicates patient-reported signs of safety problems, particularly for pediatrics | |
| 29.04.2021 | The Leapfrog Group releases latest Hospital Safety Grades of U.S. hospitals, with straight 'A' hospitals sharing insights on how they were prepared for COVID-19 | |
| 09.04.2021 | New Press Ganey Report Warns That Covid-19 May Have Worsened Hospital Safety | Hospitals are complicated places. Hospital in Tarzana, CA in January - (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP) ... [+] (Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| 08.04.2021 | Report From The Leapfrog Group Finds Rate of C-Sections Remains Too High, But Dramatic Progress on Other Maternity Care Indicators | |
| 19.03.2021 | How Hospital Sisters Health System is using tech to advance patient safety goals | Patient safety is a basic requirement of care delivery, but it can be a challenging issue for many hospitals.
Patient safety statistics bear this out. An estimated 160,000 people lose their lives every year due to avoidable medical errors, ... |
| 14.12.2020 | Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades Highlight Safety Fundamentals Needed to Cope with the Pandemic | |
| 08.12.2020 | Costs of Care Presents Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO to Mr. Carl S. Armato at The Leapfrog Group Annual Meeting | Mr. Carl S. Armato, President and CEO of Novant Health, recipient of this year's Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO Novant Health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. - Mr. Armato
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| 08.12.2020 | The Leapfrog Group Announces 2020 Top Hospitals and Pandemic Heroes of the Year Awards | |
| 18.09.2020 | Employers Won’t Like This New RAND Report On Health Costs | getty |
| 07.07.2020 | In a new hospital ranking, doing good counts nearly as much as doing well | You won’t find the usual suspects like Massachusetts General Hospital or the Mayo Clinic at the top of a new ranking of U.S. hospitals. That’s because the rating system relies not just on traditional quality measures, but also on a hospital... |
| 11.11.2019 | Here's how Houston hospitals stack up when it comes to safety, according to a national study | Close to half of the Houston area's general acute-care hospitals are at the top of their class, according to new safety grades assigned to U.S. hospitals. But one hospital in the region is failing on the safety front, the grades show.
In it... |
| 30.10.2019 | Houston recognized among the best hospital cities in the nation | As home to Texas Medical Center — the world's largest medical complex — it stands to reason that Houston ranks among the country's best cities for health care. A new study bolsters that notion, but it also points out that several health car... |
| 05.04.2019 | RepScrubs is trying to cut down on hospital acquired infection risk from med device vendors | Additionally, some of these strains cling to the fabric of scrubs and are nearly impossible to get rid completely through traditional home laundry methods. While hospitals have taken steps to improve practices and limit the potential for in... |
| 28.12.2018 | 3 Trends Impacting Digital Health Strategy & Leadership Roles in 2019 | As always, this year was full of interesting developments in healthcare. As the year comes to a close, we’ve rounded up three trends that we feel are going to significantly impact the landscape of health tech and digital health in 2019 and ... |
| 27.04.2016 | Major hospitals restrict high-risk surgeries to experienced docs | The procedure involves removing part of the pancreas and small intestine as well as the gallbladder, and reconnecting the digestive organs. It proved to be particularly complicated in Happli’s case, Evans said, because of tissue damage caus... |
| 05.02.2014 | NEJM backs ChloraPrep study in patient safety scandal | A review by the New England Journal of Medicine of data from a 2010 study it published on CareFusion‘s (NYSE:CFN) ChloraPrep antiseptic found that both the company and the doctor in charge of the study acted appropriately, the journal told ... |
| 31.12.2013 | MaternityCompare Helps Expectant Parents Find Healthcare Providers | Choosing an obstetrician can be extremely stressful for expectant parents. Additive Analytics, a new startup, hopes to help patients find trustworthy providers with MaternityCompare, its first product. The site pulls data that is publicly a... |
| 29.07.2013 | Leapfrog’s calculator helps employers put a price tag on hospital errors | Using the Hospital Safety Scores, Leapfrog estimates that on average, for a patient admitted to a hospital with a grade of “C” or lower, purchasers pay $7,780 in hidden surcharges due to medical errors.
The goal is to push employers to use ... |
| 29.07.2013 | Leapfrog starts to expose the high cost of hospital rework | There are caveats to this analogy, but the basic idea is sound.
Congratulations to Leapfrog for putting this tool out there.
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| 17.06.2013 | Strong evidence that hospital CEOs’ bonuses are standing in the way of healthcare | Experts believe that’s a good prescription for the entire U.S. health industry, which costs the economy far more than systems in other developed countries, delivers mediocre results and is widely seen as unsustainable at its current growth ... |
| 21.01.2013 | Insurers to moms and docs: Don’t rush the babies | McCorkle wishes she had known what decades’ worth of studies have found: that inducing labor or performing Caesarean sections before 39 weeks of gestation for no medical reason significantly increases a newborn’s risk of complications and e... |
| 24.10.2011 | Cleveland Clinic quits reporting infection data to patient safety group | Cleveland Clinic spokeswoman Eileen Sheil told Consumer Reports that the hospital stopped reporting to Leapfrog so it could focus its efforts on reports it makes to similar government-run databases, such as one from Centers for Medicare and... |
| - | How Hospital Sisters Health System is using tech to advance patient safety goals | Patient safety is a basic requirement of care delivery, but it can be a challenging issue for many hospitals.
Patient safety statistics bear this out. An estimated 160,000 people lose their lives every year due to avoidable medical errors, ... |
| - | Leapfrog’s calculator helps employers put a price tag on hospital errors | $6.9 million.
That’s the error tax “average US employer” pays for hospital errors, given 1,000 admissions in a year for all covered lives.
The Leapfrog Group got that number from its new calculator. It’s designed to help employers figure ou... |
| - | RepScrubs is trying to cut down on hospital acquired infection risk from med device vendors | Hospital acquired infections are a huge multi-billion dollar problem for providers, with one of the largest risks being surgical site infections. In some cases these issues can be linked to contaminated scrubs.
One analysis found that at th... |
| - | Cleveland Clinic quits reporting infection data to patient safety group | Cleveland Clinic has stopped voluntarily reporting data on hospital-acquired infections to a prominent patient-safety nonprofit, The Leapfrog Group.
The move prompted some mild criticism of the Clinic from the director of the Consumer Repor... |
| - | Leapfrog starts to expose the high cost of hospital rework | The Leapfrog Group is riling up hospitals with a hidden surcharge calculator designed to show employers how much of their health care premium is devoted to paying for medical errors at the hospitals where their employees obtain care. The pr... |
| - | Insurers to moms and docs: Don’t rush the babies | Jenn McCorkle still regrets giving birth early. McCorkle was 37 weeks pregnant when her obstetrician scheduled her for a Caesarean section the following week, saying there was no reason to wait.
But when her son, Maverick, was born in Augus... |
| - | Strong evidence that hospital CEOs’ bonuses are standing in the way of healthcare | Like hospital leaders everywhere, the people running Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash., talk frequently about the need to control soaring medical costs.
“We are working to reduce the overall cost of health care and to transform health ... |
| - | Variety of hospital choices available when having a planned procedure | Dear Savvy Senior: I need to get a hip replacement, and want to find a good, safe hospital to have it done in. What resources can you recommend for evaluating hospitals? I don’t currently have a doctor. — Shopping Around
Dear Shopping: Most... |
| - | Major hospitals restrict high-risk surgeries to experienced docs | After James Happli of Mosinee, Wisconsin, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he was referred to a surgeon at a local hospital where he had been treated for lymphoma 28 years earlier. The surgeon told Happli and his wife that although she... |
