Director of Operations @LeapfrogGroup. Passionate about health care safety & quality. Also, a love of all things food, running and Tarheels. Thoughts are my own
Thank you to everyone who signed onto our letter to CMS urging them to keep disclosing infection and other critically important #patientsafety measures. Because of you, we got about 500 signatures. Read the letter we submitted to CMS: https://t.co/J330dXOTvI
Last call to submit your signature by noon ET today: We are urging CMS to keep disclosing infection and other critically important #patientsafety measures. Read and/or sign onto the letter: https://t.co/niPw5McIRt #ptsafety
All moms should have access to high-quality maternity care. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Learn more in our new report with @CastlightHealth: https://t.co/uc3m21oq5y
The Spring 2018 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades are now live. See how your hospital scores on safety: https://t.co/0t1NV0fMTE @HospSafetyGrade #ptsafety
New 2018 report on bar code medication administration (BCMA) with @LeapfrogGroup found only 34.5% of reporting hospitals fully meet all requirements for deploying BCMA technology effectively. Read more: https://t.co/wRkM81QHYU
“In many cases, [ASCs] are cheaper than what a hospital will charge. But, if the quality of the procedure is not safe then it doesn’t matter what the cost is.” @Ericasmobley https://t.co/XrikY0vj4T #ptsafety
.@modrnhealthcr report uses Leapfrog data to show that the health care industry has made some progress on #patientsafety, but we have a long way to go. https://t.co/zbGP9yasq8 #PSAW18
Positive news from Alex Azar this week on @HHSGov's priorities around value, quality and transparency: "Change is possible, change is necessary, and change is coming,” reports @leahbinder in @Forbes https://t.co/nZUtPfxc0u
Spot-on analysis from @MartyMakary on how to really fix the broken health care system: "It’s time to expand payment models that reward appropriate (high-value) medicine, not just more medicine. " https://t.co/PqteycIY48
You might need a hospital 9 months from Valentine’s Day, so use @LeapfrogGroup maternity care ratings to pick a hospital and don’t delay! #healthpolicyvalentines https://t.co/ar8Rwad2hn
#SOTU was surprisingly timid on health care, while @jeffbezos@WarrenBuffett and Jamie Dimon were bold and breakthrough @Forbes .https://t.co/q7Wo28AXAh
Would love to see the authors of this @statnews piece propose what will work better than the #payforperformance programs they criticize rather than just go on the attack https://t.co/tOAj1VF8zJ
Good overview in @modrnhealthcr of direct contracting arrangements between health systems and employers circumnavigating health plans https://t.co/M3hD8biNZ8
Benefits of the @cvspharmacy@Aetna merger? It "crosses sectors and realigns previously competing business incentives to better target consumer demand," per @leahbinder https://t.co/orJ76JKaXc
All pregnant women must read the harrowing ordeal of @serenawilliams and know that life-threatening post-childbirth complications can happen to anyone- the importance of speaking up and making yourself heard cannot be overstated https://t.co/yUucBCXebF
Tragic to see stories like this showing that 1 in 5 have experienced a medical error, but even worse to see that 3 in 5 were never told https://t.co/Odo5GuZrrk