Urban Hospital Reports
Rural Hospital Reports
Congratulations to these Colorado hospitals who reported to the LEAPFROG GROUP for Patient Safety, as of June 30, 2005.

If your hospital DID report to the LEAPFROG survey, Bravo! Call and commend them for reporting. Preventable medical mistakes are a problem you can do something about. If it has not yet reported, call the hospital Director for Quality and ask when they will.

The information is compiled from the answers hospitals provided. The LEAPFROG GROUP does not independently verify the accuracy of the information.

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For the second year the Colorado Business Group on Health asked 38 rural hospitals to complete this new LEAP 4 survey which was adopted in 2004. Of that group ten completed the LEAP 4 survey that relates to 27 safe practices. For rural hospitals not all leaps apply. The Quality Index (made up of 27 NQF-endorsed Safe Practices) is the first leap that applies especially to rural hospitals.

The Colorado Business Group on Health congratulates these Rural Hospitals reporting to the LEAPFROG GROUP as of July 7, 2006.

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List of the highest ranking ten safe practices used to calculate LEAP 4 Quality Index.

1. The hospital has an environment where healthcare delivery is based on open communication and safe practices.

2. The hospital has enough nurses, and the nurses are highly trained.

3. Your doctors and nurses should be constantly informed about new information relating to your condition and care.

4. "Anticoagulation therapy" helps to thin the blood and keep it thin to prevent clot formation. A special team, including doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, should help the patient manage this problem.

5. Before an operation patients should be checked for the risk of infection. If a risk is identified, doctors or nurses should try to prevent infection by using antibiotics or using anti-infection methods.

6. When a doctor gives verbal orders, the order should be written down and read back immediately in order to verify the accuracy of what was heard.

7. Every person should wash their hands before and after contact with a patient or objects around a patient, every time!

8. A central intravenous line is a narrow tube that is placed into a large blood vessel and passed into the opening of the heart. It is used to administer medicine, fluid, and draw blood. Methods known to prevent infection should be used when a patient receives a central line.

9. Pharmacists should be consulted in prescribing and dosing of medications by being available for consultation with the doctors and the nurses.

10. Operations that are performed on the wrong site or on the wrong patient can be avoided by adopting standardized protocols for all doctors and nurses to follow.