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33 Adult Facilities
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center- Summit Campus (Oakland CA)
Baystate Medical Center (Springfield MA)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston MA)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston MA)
California Pacific Medical Center - Pacific Campus (San Francisco CA)
Evanston Hospital (Evanston IL)
Hamot Medical Center (Erie PA)
Harper-Hutzel Hospital (Detroit MI)
Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit MI)
James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute (Columbus OH)
Lahey Clinic (Burlington MA)
Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown PA)
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston MA)
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville - Saint Luke’s Hospital (Jacksonville FL)
Mayo Clinic Rochester - Saint Mary’s Hospital (Rochester MN)
Montefiore Medical Center: Moses Division (Bronx NY)
Montefiore Medical Center: Weiler Division (Bronx NY)
Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital (Saint Louis Park MN)
Saint Mary's Health Care (Grand Rapids MI)
Saint Thomas Hospital (Nashville TN)
Sinai Hospital (Baltimore MD)
Spectrum Health - Butterworth Campus (Grand Rapids MI)
Stanford Hospital and Clinics (Stanford CA)
Summa Health Systems Hospitals -- Akron City Hospital (Akron OH)
University of California - UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles CA)
University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore MD)
University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill NC)
UPMC Presbyterian Part of UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (Pittsburgh PA)
Valley Hospital (Ridgewood NJ)
Vanderbilt University Hospital (Nashville TN)
Vassar Brothers Medical Center (Poughkeepsie NY)
Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle WA)
William Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak MI)
8 Children’s Hospitals
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston (Atlanta GA)
Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit MI)
Children's Hospital of Orange County (Orange CA)
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis (Minneapolis MN)
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota – Saint Paul (Saint Paul MN)
Children’s National Medical Center (Washington DC)
Cook Children's Medical Center (Fort Worth TX)
Miller Children's Hospital (Long Beach CA)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kat Song - (202) 292-6707
September 18, 2007 ksong@leapfroggroup.org
41 HOSPITALS ARE DESIGNATED “LEAPFROG TOP HOSPITALS” FOR 2007
Significant Gaps in Safety and Quality Practices Among Other Hospitals Still the Norm Hospitals Report Commitment to Transparency for First Time
WASHINGTON, DC – Forty-one U.S. hospitals have been named 2007 Leapfrog Top Hospitals, based on results from the Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety Survey, a rating system that provides an up-to-the-minute assessment of a hospital’s quality and safety.

The Survey is the most complete and current assessment of hospital quality and safety available. In the 33 regions where Leapfrog targets hospitals for participation in the voluntary survey, 44 percent of the urban, general acute-care hospitals have responded (representing 55 percent of the hospital beds in these areas). Data is collected from hospitals on their progress toward implementing practices in four categories:

1. Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE): Do physicians enter patient
prescriptions and other orders into computers linked to error prevention software?
2. ICU Physician Staffing (IPS): Are intensive care units staffed by trained ICU specialists
(intensivists)?
3. Evidence-Based Hospital Referral (EBHR): How well do hospitals perform seven highrisk
procedures and care for three high-risk neonatal conditions?
4. Leapfrog Safe Practices Score (SPS): How well are hospitals progressing on the other
27 National Quality Forum-endorsed Safe Practices?
Seventy-four percent of participating hospitals have fully implemented the practices in at least
one of these four safety and quality categories.
The 2007 Top Hospitals list is based on 1,285 hospitals that responded to the Leapfrog Hospital
Quality and Safety Survey as of August 31. Top Hospitals fully meet Leapfrog’s standard for
ICU Physician Staffing (IPS) and the Safe Practices Score (SPS) and either of the following: (1)
Two or more of the eight Evidence Based Hospital Referral (EBHR) areas; or, (2) Computerized
Physician Order Entry plus one of the eight EBHR areas. Thirty–three hospitals meet these
criteria. Top Children’s Hospitals fully meet the standard for IPS, SPS and the EBHR Neonatal
ICU standard for high-risk and complicated newborns. Eight children’s hospitals meet these
criteria.

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