Leapfrog Best Practices Poster Session in Partnership with the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality

For the first time, The Leapfrog Group, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, will host a poster session during its 2024 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, December 17 at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Maryland.

This is an opportunity for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to share case studies directly tied to meeting Leapfrog’s Hospital Survey, ASC Survey, or Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Standards on:

• Patient Rights and Ethics (billing ethics, health care equity, informed consent, and never events)
• Surgical Safety and Quality (facility and surgeon volume standards, safe surgery checklist implementation, patient experience)
• Specialty Care (maternity care, pediatric care, critical care)
• Patient Safety (medication safety, NQF Safe Practices, hand hygiene, healthcare-associated infections, nurse staffing and skill mix).

Only hospitals and ASCs who have submitted a 2024 Leapfrog Survey are eligible to participate in the poster session. 

Poster Presenters:

Facility Name	Poster Subject
Advent Health	Creating a Safer EMR: AdventHealth’s Leapfrog CPOE Journey 2017-2024
Baptist Outpatient Services ASC/Baptist Health	Development of an Electronic Surgical Site Surveillance (SSI) Program in a Multi-surgery ASC without an Electronic Medical Record
Bergen New Bridge Medical Center	Time Out Documentation Requirements Result in Safer Perioperative Process
Crozer Health	Use of Business Intelligence (BI) in Creating a System-wide Hand Hygiene Observation and Compliance Program
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore Medical Center	Reduced Inpatient Hypoglycemia Rate: Implementation of Percent Eaten Documentation in Epic’s Brain Functionality
Henry Ford Hospital	Enhancing Patient Safety: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Community-Onset C.diff Detection
Holy Name Medical Center	Successfully Reducing NTSV C-Section and Episiotomy Rates with Evidence-Based Practices at Community-Based Hospital
Inspira Health	Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex (NTSV) Rate Reduction Across a Multi-Hospital Health Network
Jefferson Health	Improving Medication Safety through Dynamic In-Line Drug Laboratory Warnings
Johns Hopkins Health System	Beyond Never Events: Communication and Resolution Programs for All Significant Harm Events
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara	Reducing NSQIP Surgical Site Infections by Improving General Surgery
Maimonides Medical Center	Dashing to Zero Harm: Can a Simple Dashboard Minimize Hospital Acquired Safety Events?
NYC Health + Hospital/Metropolitan	Impact of Electronic Direct Observation on Hand-Hygiene Compliance and Healthcare-Associated Infections
Newark Beth Isreal Medical Center	Hand Hygiene Performance Improvements Results in Adult Acute Care Units
Southwest CT Surgery Center	Improving Pre-Surgical Clearance Communication to Reduce Cancellations
Texas Huguley Hospital Fort Worth South	Transformative Leadership in Preventing Errors: Achieving Leapfrog-ADA Diabetes Designation
Trinitas Regional Medical Center	Reducing Central-line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) to Enhance Patient Safety
University of Michigan Health	Implementing a Standardized Surgical Safety Checklist at an Outpatient Surgery Center

Selection Criteria:

Poster abstracts reviewed by Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality leadership and Leapfrog leadership based on originality, appropriateness, clarity, and impact. The topic had to be related to Leapfrog Standards on its Surveys or Hospital Safety Grade to be considered.

Please email info@leapfrog-group.org with any questions.