Valley Awarded Elite Distinction as a 2012 Leapfrog Top Hospital
December 4, 2012 – The Valley Hospital is proud to once again be included on The Leapfrog Group’s prestigious annual list of Top Hospitals. The class of top hospitals – 89 hospitals from a field of nearly 1,200 – was announced today. Valley has been included on Leapfrog’s Top Hospital list five times, and is one of only three New Jersey hospitals to be included on the list this year.
“We are honored to once again be among the best hospitals in the country for quality and patient safety standards, “said Audrey Meyers, President and CEO of Valley Health System and The Valley Hospital. “Valley has made patient safety a priority, and our staff has worked diligently over the past several years to implement many successful quality and patient safety initiatives.”
The selection is based on the results of the Leapfrog Group’s annual hospital survey, which measures hospitals’ performance on patient safety and quality, focusing on three critical areas of hospital care: how patients fare, resource use, and management structures in place to prevent errors. The results of the survey are posted at on a website www.leapfroggroup.org/cp.
As a 2012 Top Hospital, The Valley Hospital met the standards for safe, high quality care in several areas including:
• A hospital must fully meet Leapfrog’s standard for Preventing Medication Errors through the use of Computerized Physician Order Entry
• A hospital must fully meet Leapfrog’s standard for ICU Physician Staffing
• A hospital must fully meet Leapfrog’s standards for high-risk surgeries and procedures
• Hospitals eligible for a Hospital Safety Score must receive an A on the letter grades publicly reported at the time of the Top Hospital public announcement.
“The Leapfrog Top Hospital distinction is by far the most competitive award a hospital can receive,” said Leah Binder, President and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “Leapfrog holds hospitals to the highest standards on behalf of our purchaser members and their employees. By achieving the Top Hospital accolade, The Valley Hospital has demonstrated exemplary
performance across all areas of quality and patient safety that are analyzed on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. This hospital stands out as one consistently providing safe, high quality care, and I would be comfortable sending my family to Valley for care.”
The Valley Hospital was selected as a Top Hospital out of nearly 1,200 hospitals participating in The Leapfrog Group’s annual survey.