The Chief Operating Officer at the Palm Beach Health Network recently published an op-ed claiming their hospitals did not deserve the Ds and Fs they earned from the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
A Gibson Dunn team led by Mary Beth Maloney, Sydney Scott, and Lee Crain secured an injunction on behalf of five South Florida community hospitals against The Leapfrog Group, the nonprofit that ...
The Leapfrog Group highlighted broad improvements across several patient safety measures in this year’s spring release of hospital safety grades, the first reflecting changes made after a ...
Does bigger mean better when it comes to hospital safety? A new grading of U.S. hospitals from the patient safety organization Leapfrog Group suggests hospitals that get high marks on limiting ...
A federal judge has ordered the hospital ratings group Leapfrog to stop assigning its influential safety grades to five South Florida hospitals based on an “unfair and deceptive” methodology that ...
Five Palm Beach County hospitals have accused the hospital-rating organization Leapfrog Group of operating a "pay-to-play" scheme. The hospitals say Leapfrog's ratings are inaccurate and misleading, ...
Five South Florida hospitals are suing Leapfrog Group, accusing it of misleading safety rankings. Getty Images Five South Florida hospitals are suing a national watchdog group, accusing it of crafting ...
In what’s surely every patient’s nightmare, foreign objects such as surgical sponges sometimes get left behind inside the body during surgery. It happens only rarely, but to help avoid it, health care ...
Nonprofit watchdog organization The Leapfrog Group must remove the safety grades it assigned to five Tenet Healthcare hospitals after a federal judge ruled the grades were deceptive and unfair. Judge ...
Eleven U.S. hospitals have earned consecutive “A” safety grades from The Leapfrog Group since 2012. Leapfrog calculates hospital safety grades using up to 22 CMS patient safety measures, data from the ...