The Leapfrog Group

www.leapfroggroup.org

The Leapfrog Group is a voluntary program aimed at mobilizing employer purchasing power to alert America's health industry that big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded. Among other initiatives, Leapfrog works with its employer members to encourage transparency and easy access to health care information as well as rewards for hospitals that have a proven record of high quality care.

The Leapfrog Group aims to:

• Reduce preventable medical mistakes and improve the quality and affordability of health care.
• Encourage health providers to publicly report their quality and outcomes so that consumers and purchasing organizations can make informed health care choices.
• Reward doctors and hospitals for improving the quality, safety and affordability of health care. Help consumers reap the benefits of making smart health care decisions.

The Leapfrog Group also recognizes Evergreen for its low blood infection rates.

How Evergreen is Continuously Improving

Evergreen continues to make great strides with the Leapfrog Group process measures. Most recently, Evergreen has made a commitment to implement computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The hope is that this technology with improve efficiency, accuracy and overall patient safety.