Podcast appearances and mentions of leah binder

Recognizing that preventable medical errors, infections, and injuries are estimated to account for the deaths of 250,000 people annually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded public reporting by hospitals on rates of patient safety events. Furthermore, CMS recently introduced the Patient Safety Structural Measure, effective 2025.Reporting on the details of this new initiative during the next edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Leah Binder, president and CEO for The Leapfrog Group. Binder, long considered one of the more influential people in healthcare, is scheduled to be the special guest during the next live edition of the long-running and popular Internet broadcast, produced by ICD10monitor.Also during the broadcast, these instantly recognizable panelists will report more news:• The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant with Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, will report on the latest coding news.• Social Determinants of Health: Tiffany Ferguson, CEO for Phoenix Medical Management, Inc., will report on the news that is happening at the intersection of medical record auditing and the SDoH.• News Desk: Timothy Powell, ICD10monitor national correspondent and regulatory expert, will anchor the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.• TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will report on a subject that has caught her attention during her popular segment.

For a full transcript of this episode, click here. There's this meme that's going around on the interwebs with the caption, “Sometimes the shortest distance in between two places isn't a straight line.” What? Yeah, because actually there's three dimensions in the real world. So, when we all consider the real world, understanding the contours of reality and aligning with them is the only way to devise a winning strategy—not only if you're timing rubber balls getting dropped off straight or curved slopes. I'm saying this because I've seen (and you've seen) a whole lot of great ideas fail because someone draws a very elegant straight line on a whiteboard, calls it the fastest and most efficient way to get from here to a desired outcome … and then the plan ultimately fails. What contours am I talking about taking into account right now? Oh, pretty much the entirety of US healthcare. If you combine the complexities and perverse incentives of the industry itself plus the art and science of medicine plus epidemiology and social determinants and I'm probably forgetting other dimensions, you have contours that are mountain ranges. Not considering the reality of those elevations and just thinking there's some kind of straight line here to be found is really a kind of delusion. Now, investors and C-suites may like these delusions, but let's just get real: It's not gonna actually work out as written. One case study that I am talking about is digital health solutions or pharma companies even or pretty much anyone who thinks that the fastest way to increase sales is to talk about the product, let's just say as one example. That's the straight line to growth: Talk about the product. Another one is stripping away things that feel like they're a waste of time in the name of efficiency without actually checking if you're cutting into essential stuff. I talk about this at length with Kate Wolin, ScD, in an episode coming up. Jodilyn Owen has a thing or two to say on this point in episode 421 also. But let me be clear: I'm not talking about anyone listening to the show today making this mistake, at least wholesale. We all make it incrementally; it's hard to avoid. But you get this. That's why you're here. You get that the fastest path anywhere is truly understanding the problems faced by customers. And then it's showing how the product or whatever you're doing helps solve those problems. No one cares how efficient or safe your thing is if it's accomplishing something that no one cares about, no one gets paid for, and/or can figure out how to deploy or use. This is what the entire episode last week, episode 430 with Barbara Wachsman, was about. Why is all of this relevant? It's actually what makes Relentless Health Value relevant, frankly. Many listeners—and shout-outs to Nate Walker and MaryCarol Evans—say that this is why they listen to Relentless Health Value and what Relentless Health Value helps them with: finding those contours, understanding reality so that it can be aligned with. And on the show today, Kenny Cole, MD, I gotta say, could be really impactful in this regard as well as in others. Nate Walker wrote, “[Relentless Health Value] inspires me every day to stay true to my desire to make a difference in healthcare for patients by adding transparency and helping to connect the dots within this fragmented system.” MaryCarol Evans has alluded to the same thing multiple times as well and often highlights that Relentless Health Value helps her think through and identify the small things that are possible—she says there's plenty of them—that have a huge impact on the lives of plan members. Dr. Kenny Cole is from Ochsner Health System, and I love this conversation today because it has lessons for anybody working in a clinic or managing a clinic who wants to learn from a master. But it also is really interesting for anyone who's trying to work with, alongside of, or sell to a clinical practice or health system that is pulling away from the status quo, that is standardizing care and working as a team, one that is earning the trust of its patients, and also one that is figuring out how to reinvent the business model of healthcare such that clinical pathways and care flows are aligned with financial viability. That's really, obviously, the holy grail here. We talk today about how to achieve clinical and financial success, even if the financial models are all over the map. We talk about how to create a practice model or a clinical model that might appeal to clinicians and keep them from being burnt out while, at the same time, ensure that patients are getting the kind of outcomes everyone can be proud of and the place doesn't go bankrupt either. This episode reminded me a lot of the conversation with Scott Conard, MD (EP391)—there's lots of complementary points. The shows with David Carmouche, MD (EP316, AEE15, EP343) from when he was at Ochsner are also pretty relevant here. Some of the points that Dr. Kenny Cole makes today also align very much with what Rik Renard (EP427) was talking about a few weeks ago. But regardless of where you sit or what you're trying to do, this show is a great one to really get a bead on the lay of the land to find the actual shortest path between here and there, which is not gonna be (most likely) an obviously straight line. Dr. Kenny Cole makes, I'm gonna say, four main points by my counting; and they are as follows: 1. Clinical teams have to deliver care wherein outcomes are measurable, and it has to be done in such a way that those clinical teams are accountable for the outcomes that are generated. 2. Clinical teams need to really see with their own two eyes and believe that a clinical goal that they've been given is possible. 3. Care flows are critical here, which means getting everyone on the same page about what best-practice care looks like and operationalizing how that clinical excellence will be achieved. 4. Building trust with patients and connecting with patients cannot be underestimated, and care flows need to not only standardize care so that it can be delivered quicker and easier but also facilitate patient relationships. Dr. Kenny Cole is a primary care internist. He sees patients one day a week. The other days, he serves as a system vice president for Ochsner Health, which is a large integrated delivery system. In this role, he designs and develops new care models. If I'm making recommendations for what to listen to next, I'd go with episode 412 with Robert Pearl, MD—he talks about a model to lead healthcare transformation and clinical excellence. Then episode 391 with Dr. Scott Conard gets into what happens in the real world when the financial model is misaligned with excellent care. Lastly, episode 343 with Dr. David Carmouche. Oh, two last things and new topics: First, thanks to Santos-L-Halper, Nina Lathia, and KC64789 for some really nice reviews this month. I read them. They make me happy. Thanks so much for leaving them. And lastly, heads up that Rule of Three (ro3) has an annual March Healthcare Classic that is currently ongoing. It's pretty cool what they do. They have a very august panel that debates which trends will reign supreme in their impact on healthcare in 2024. The committee includes: ·      Dr. David Carmouche, SVP Healthcare Delivery, Walmart Health ·      Eric Gallagher, CEO, Ochsner Health Network ·      Leah Binder, CEO, The Leapfrog Group ·      Anisha Sood, Chief Financial & Strategy Officer, First Choice Health Follow along with the experts through the ro3 March Healthcare Classic at https://ro3.com/healthcare-classic/. Also mentioned in this episode are Jodilyn Owen; Barbara Wachsman; Nate Walker; MaryCarol Evans; Scott Conard, MD; David Carmouche, MD; Rik Renard; Robert Pearl, MD; Nina Lathia, RPh, MSc, PhD; Josh M. Berlin; Rule of Three, LLC; Eric Gallagher; Leah Binder; Anisha Sood; John Rodis, MD, MBA, FACHE, CPHQ; Bob Matthews; Marty Makary, MD, MPH; Sanat Dixit, MD, MBA, FACS; and Rob Andrews. You can learn more at Ochsner Health. You can also follow Dr. Cole on LinkedIn.   Kenny Cole, MD, began his role as System VP, Clinical Improvement, for Ochsner Health in New Orleans in September 2019. He is a practicing primary care internist with advanced degrees from LSU Health Sciences Center and Dartmouth, as well as executive training from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Ochsner Health, Dr. Cole was the chief clinical transformation officer for Baton Rouge General Medical Center, where he designed, developed, and implemented a completely reimagined multidisciplinary team-based model of primary care that focused on aligning clinical with financial outcomes. His current work at Ochsner Health built on that prior foundation to design and help develop Ochsner 65 Plus, a group of redesigned primary care clinics focused on the needs of older adults.   07:38 Is there an optimal care pathway where there might be a lot of treatment variability? 11:01 Why doesn't Dr. Cole like the terms “noncompliant” and “nonadherent”? 11:45 EP412 with Robert Pearl, MD. 13:50 Why is it important to start with the end in mind? 17:20 How do you scale clinical excellence? 20:21 EP315 with Bob Matthews. 21:15 EP242 with Marty Makary, MD. 23:49 Why is it important simply to demonstrate what's possible for better health outcomes? 24:58 EP427 with Rik Renard. 26:10 How do we reinvent the business model of healthcare? 27:50 EP415 with Rob Andrews. 30:06 EP391 with Scott Conard, MD. 38:37 Dr. Cole is published in various healthcare journals; check out his most recent article.   You can learn more at Ochsner Health. You can also follow Dr. Cole on LinkedIn.   Kenny Cole, MD, discusses #accountability for #healthoutcomes on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthcareleadership #healthcaretransformation #healthcareinnovation   Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! Barbara Wachsman, Luke Slindee, Julie Selesnick, Rik Renard, AJ Loiacono (Encore! EP379), Nina Lathia, Marshall Allen, Stacey Richter (INBW39), Peter Hayes, Joey Dizenhouse  

On episode 77 of PSQH: The Podcast, Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, talks about the new Innovators for Leapfrog program.

How has our fragmented approach to safety in health care hindered real progress on medical error? Can we reshape the healthcare landscape through directed collaboration? Join host Karen Wolk Feinstein and guests Leah Binder, president & CEO of The Leapfrog Group; former NTSB chair Christopher Hart, founder of Hart Solutions; Dr. Najmedin Meshkati, professor of Civil/Environmental Engineering, Industrial & Systems Engineering, and International Relations at the University of Southern California; and healthcare executive and patient safety leader Julie Morath, member of the IHI Lucian Leape Institute and PCAST Patient Safety Work Group, for a deep dive into the potential to create meaningful partnerships among patient safety related organizations and finally make substantial progress on preventing harms before they occur.  Read the show notes here: npsb.org/podcast/episode-15-proposing-new-partnerships/

How has our fragmented approach to safety in health care hindered real progress on medical error? Can we reshape the healthcare landscape through directed collaboration? Join host Karen Wolk Feinstein and guests Leah Binder, president & CEO of The Leapfrog Group; former NTSB chair Christopher Hart, founder of Hart Solutions; Dr. Najmedin Meshkati, professor of Civil/Environmental Engineering, Industrial & Systems Engineering, and International Relations at the University of Southern California; and healthcare executive and patient safety leader Julie Morath, member of the IHI Lucian Leape Institute and PCAST Patient Safety Work Group, for a deep dive into the potential to create meaningful partnerships among patient safety related organizations and finally make substantial progress on preventing harms before they occur.  Read the show notes here: npsb.org/podcast/episode-15-proposing-new-partnerships/

Episode page with video clip, transcript, and more Welcome to Episode #71 of Habitual Excellence, presented by Value Capture. Joining us today as our guests are Leah Binder and Dr. Richard Shannon. Leah Binder is President & CEO of The Leapfrog Group, representing employers and other purchasers of health care calling for improved safety and quality in hospitals. Under her leadership, The Leapfrog Group launched the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns letter grades assessing the safety of general hospitals across the country. Richard P. Shannon, MD serves as the Chief Quality Officer for Duke Health. He is responsible for the overall direction, leadership and operational management of the quality and safety programs of Duke Health, and provides leadership in strengthening a quality culture where everyone is engaged and respected. Leah and Rick are both amongst the great lineup of presenters at an executive seminar that's being hosted by Duke Health in Durham, NC — on September 15th and 16th — titled “Leading with Safety.” Today we're going to be talking about the urgent need to improve safety and quality in healthcare — and what leading organizations are doing to make progress toward ideal care and zero harm. In today's episode, Leah and Rick talk with host Mark Graban, about topics and questions including: How would you describe the landscape of patient safety today? 20 years since the IOM Report - accelerating in the past decade? Getting worse during the pandemic? Headline: “U.S. Hospitals Are Getting Safer for Patients, Study Finds” - Certain adverse events down from about 20% of patients to 10%… thoughts? What's the difference between the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade and the Leapfrog Hospital Survey / ASC Survey? Beyond the grades, what do you see happening in the A hospitals vs. the others with lower grades?? Rick — Tell us about Duke Health's language around having a “commitment to zero harm” and how that's not just a slogan? How do you make practical and meaningful progress toward zero harm? Leah — How do employers look at the issue and what are they asking for or demanding now? Why are we doing this seminar for CEOs and the C-suite instead of quality leaders?? Rick, why host the seminar at Duke Health? The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020

On this episode of InsideOut, Leah Binder, CEO of The Leapfrog Group, joins to discuss how newly passed legislation could have a significant impact on employers and why data will help deliver transparency and better care throughout our healthcare system.

In this 3-part podcast series, AORN CEO, Linda Groah, MSN RN CNOR NEA-BC FAAN, and Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group discuss surgical trends, nurse leadership, and the value of quality data in today's ASCs. Complete the free annual Leapfrog ASC Survey before November 30 to highlight the safety and quality of your ASC based on national, evidence-based measures that are of specific interest to employers, health care purchasers, and consumers. Survey Results are publicly reported, and provide ASCs with information to benchmark their progress, educate patients about their facility and galvanize change. Get started here.Support the show (https://www.aorn.org/join?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=promotional&utm_campaign=periop_talk&utm_content=support_podcast )

In this 3-part podcast series, AORN CEO, Linda Groah, MSN RN CNOR NEA-BC FAAN, and Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group discuss surgical trends, nurse leadership, and the value of quality data in today's ASCs. Complete the free annual Leapfrog ASC Survey before November 30 to highlight the safety and quality of your ASC based on national, evidence-based measures that are of specific interest to employers, health care purchasers, and consumers. Survey Results are publicly reported, and provide ASCs with information to benchmark their progress, educate patients about their facility and galvanize change. Get started here.Support the show (https://www.aorn.org/join?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=promotional&utm_campaign=periop_talk&utm_content=support_podcast )

In this 3-part podcast series, AORN CEO, Linda Groah, MSN RN CNOR NEA-BC FAAN, and Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group discuss surgical trends, nurse leadership, and the value of quality data in today's ASCs. Complete the free annual Leapfrog ASC Survey before November 30 to highlight the safety and quality of your ASC based on national, evidence-based measures that are of specific interest to employers, health care purchasers, and consumers. Survey Results are publicly reported, and provide ASCs with information to benchmark their progress, educate patients about their facility and galvanize change. Get started here.Support the show (https://www.aorn.org/join?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=promotional&utm_campaign=periop_talk&utm_content=support_podcast )

In this episode of Making Healthcare, David Park interviews Leah Binder about growing up in Maine, why she originally wanted to be a teacher or a politician, how she ended up in healthcare and her journey to becoming the CEO of the Leapfrog group, and why people in their 20s and 30s are about to disrupt the entire healthcare system.Leah Binder is the president and CEO of the Leapfrog group, which represents employers and other purchasers of healthcare and calls for improved safety and quality in hospitals. She is regular contributor to Forbes.com and other top tier publications.

Show notes: http://valuecapturellc.com/he35 Welcome to Episode #35 of Habitual Excellence, presented by Value Capture. Our guest is Leah Binder. She is President & CEO of The Leapfrog Group, representing employers and other purchasers of health care calling for improved safety and quality in hospitals. She has been named on Becker's list of the 50 most powerful people in healthcare, and consistently cited by Modern Healthcare among the 100 most influential people and top 25 women in healthcare. Under her leadership, The Leapfrog Group launched the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns letter grades assessing the safety of general hospitals across the country. She has also fostered groundbreaking innovations in the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey, including partnerships to eliminate early elective deliveries, central line-associated bloodstream infections and safe use of health technology. Leah has a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University and two master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, one from the Annenberg School of Communication and the other from the Fels Institute of Government. In this episode, host Mark Graban asks Leah to talk about Leapfrog Group and their approach to making information about cost and quality — and hospital ratings — available to the public. She also talks about the need for a mandatory reporting system for infections. Leah shares some memories of the late Paul O'Neill speaking at a Leapfrog Group annual gala, an event Mark attended that year. She also talks about the need to focus now on nursing home ratings, an important initiative for Leapfrog Group. This podcast is part of the Lean Communicators network.

As the health care industry continues to combat health and cost-related issues exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, employers remain a key figure in the pursuit for higher value care. Recently, the Leapfrog Group partnered with the Health Transformation Alliance, or HTA, to help delineate high-value health care services with a particular focus on transparency and payment reform. On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Leah Binder, president and chief executive officer of the Leapfrog Group, about her organization’s partnership with the HTA, the significance of their 25th anniversary this year, and how transparency and employer leverage may shape the transition toward value-based health care.

 http://www.leanblog.org/360Returning for Episode #360 of the podcast is Leah Binder, the president and CEO of Leapfrog Group. We last talked four years ago in Episode #240 about the patient safety crisis and efforts to improve. Today, we'll talk about hospitals' preparation for the Covid-19 / Coronavirus threat. Read her statement on this topic and stay tuned for announcements about free webinars and resources that Leapfrog Group will be providing.We'll also discuss safety (and the lack of reporting and data) in the outpatient (ambulatory) surgery setting -- where 60% of procedures are done today in the U.S. We'll also talk about the progress that's been made in the last four years on the patient safety front, in general. Please check out Leapfrog Group and their Hospital Safety Score website. How does your hospital measure up? How do the hospitals in your community compare? What can hospitals be doing to close their gaps so they get an "A"? How can large businesses who pay for healthcare and have their employees' interest in mind, like manufacturers, help put positive pressure on healthcare to improve? 

Empowering clients to find the highest-value care by helping customers make informed decisions through collecting and reporting transparent hospital performance For the show notes, full transcript, links, and resources please visit us at show link: https://outcomesrocket.health/leapfrog/

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Leah Binder, CEO of the Leapfrog Group, which is dedicated promoting patient safety through better transparency in hospital errors leading to avoidable deaths. She discusses the 161 thousand error-related hospital deaths last year, and the latest Hospital Safety Grade, which scores hospitals on their safety measure performance. The post Patients At Risk: Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder on High Rate of Avoidbable Deaths in America’s Hospitals appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.

Leapfrog Group president and CEO Leah Binder talks with Harry about data transparency and how it helps inform healthcare decisions by putting the right information in the hands of patients and employers. How to rate MoneyBall Medicine on iTunes with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Launch the "Podcasts" app on your device. If you can't find this app, swipe all the way to the left on your home screen until you're on the Search page. Tap the search field at th top and type in "Podcasts." Apple's Podcasts app should show up in the search results. Tap the Podcasts app icon, and after it opens, tap the Search field at the top, or the little magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Type MoneyBall Medicine into the search field and press the Search button. In the search results, click on the MoneyBall Medicine logo. On the next page, scroll down until you see the Ratings & Reviews section. Below that you'll see five purple stars. Tap the stars to rate the show. Scroll down a little farther. You'll see a purple link saying "Write a Review." On the next screen, you'll see the stars again. You can tap them to leave a rating, if you haven't already. In the Title field, type a summary for your review. In the Review field, type your review. When you're finished, click Send. That's it, you're done. Thanks!

Improving healthcare outcomes by empowering purchasers to find the highest-value care and giving consumers the lifesaving information they need to make informed decisions through collecting and reporting transparent hospital performance

When I mention an organization that walks tall and carries a big stick – you’d best be thinking of The LeapFrog Group. It has become one of the more powerful patient safety organizations in grading hospitals, through its mission of providing public transparency. Ultimately, it seeks to improve safety, quality, and affordability of U.S. health care. Estimates today finger medical errors as causing upwards of 400,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. Additionally, employers and individual coverage purchasers are the unwitting recipients of long-term purposeful cost hyperinflation from drug companies, healthcare providers, and health payers. Founded in 2000, the LeapFrog Group came about from large employers and care coverage purchasers who recognized the poor returns on their healthcare spend. Never has that need been more true than today - as hyperinflated costs can no longer be justified will business and individual consumers supporting the system and its pricing. In 2017, nearly 1,800 hospitals have already completed LeapFrog's quality, safety, and resource survey. It is increasingly being considered a standard for evaluating hospital performance - specific to quality, safe, and resource use. Leapfrog already gives its own safety ratings on all U.S. hospitals; and this data is being increasingly used by individual and business healthcare consumers - especially as we see free-market forces entering into the system.   Recently, Dr. Steve Ambrose - the Founder & Host of the RED HOT HEALTHCARE Podcast, had an opportunity to engage in a riveting back-and-forth audio interview with Leah Binder, the outspoken CEO and President of The LeapFrog Group. She was named on Becker’s list of the 50 most powerful people in healthcare, and consistently cited by Modern Healthcare among the 100 most influential people and top 25 women in healthcare. In the complete audio listen, Dr. Steve Ambrose and Leah Binder dive deep into topics including: Her history of working on New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's team How the LeapFrog Group grew its influence with thousands of hospitals The REAL TRUTH on who pays the most healthcare costs What facets make up LeapFrog's grades & reported data The importance of PUBLIC transparency and accountability for all hospitals Extending transparency to payers and pharma companies (Dr. Steve thoughts)

Let’s get the bad news over with first. The number of people who die from hospital mistakes could be as high as 400,000 per year. On today’s episode of Healthcare Simplified, Tyler Willse interviews Leah Binder, President and CEO of the Leapfrog Group. She specializes in helping employers use their leverage to get safer and higher quality care for their employees. “When they looked at their own covered lives, they were stunned to realize that they were potentially losing an employee every other day,” Binder said.

Let’s get the bad news over with first. The number of people who die from hospital mistakes could be as high as 400,000 per year. On today’s episode of Healthcare Simplified, Tyler Willse interviews Leah Binder, President and CEO of the Leapfrog Group. She specializes in helping employers use their leverage to get safer and higher quality care for their employees. “When they looked at their own covered lives, they were stunned to realize that they were potentially losing an employee every other day,” Binder said.

Stewart Gandolf interviews Leah Binder, CEO The LeapFrog Group. Stewart and Leah discuss comparing performance on the national standards of safety, quality, and efficiency, and more. Read our blog on this podcast here: https://healthcaresuccess.com/blog/podcast-interview/new-era-healthcare.html

In fall 2015, The American Journal of Managed Care convened a panel of experts to discuss healthcare reform in the United States. In these segments, panelists Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group; Austin Frakt, PhD, an associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and School of Medicine and a health economist at the Department of Veterans Affairs; Margaret E. O'Kane, MHA, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance; and Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, discussed a number of topics, including Medicaid expansion, drug prices, managing specialty populations, and more. Watch the video series here: http://www.ajmc.com/peer-exchange/healthcare-reform-stakeholders-summit-fall-2015

My guest for episode #240 is somebody I've wanted to interview for a long time, Leah Binder, the president and CEO of Leapfrog Group, "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." In this episode, Leah talks about the story behind Leapfrog Group, the scale of the patient safety problem in America, some efforts of Leapfrog Group to grade hospitals, the connections between Lean and patient safety, and other topics. Please check out Leapfrog Group and their Hospital Safety Score website. How does your hospital measure up? How do the hospitals in your community compare? What can hospitals be doing to close their gaps so they get an "A"? How can large businesses who pay for healthcare and have their employees' interest in mind, like manufacturers, help put positive pressure on healthcare to improve?

Pat blows the whistle on secondary infections and undecipherable hospital safety scores. Guest - Leah Binder from The Leapfrog Group shares more about hospital scores and how to use them. Ewww... What's On Your Lipstick? Pat digs into the cosmetic bag to discover germy products.This show is broadcast live on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

All hospitals are not the same! Many hospitals have much worse rates of infections and medical errors that have a serious effect on employers and their employees, both in terms of financial cost as well as human lives. You probably know about this unfortunate fact of life in health care, but do your employees? How […]

Guest: Leah Binder Host: Bruce Japsen Rating hospitals has become the hallmark for the Leapfrog Group. Leah Binder, the Chief Executive Officer of The Leapfrog Group, tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen about new quality ratings in this year's Leapfrog Hospital Survey.