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Originally Posted by pauld315
I regularly keep up with the news in the Raleigh NC area where I lived for a lot of my adult life. Today they had an article about hospital ratings in the area that had just been released by Leapfrog. I decided to go the Leapfrog website to peruse the hospitals in this area. Interestingly, TVRH and Leesburg Regional, which I believed are managed by the same team, both declined to respond to Leapfrog's survey. Expanding my search to 50 miles around here, I discovered they are two of the very few hospitals to decline to participate. Why would they do that ?
Here is a link to the website
Compare Hospitals | Leapfrog |
Leapfrog is a private not for profit organization. Responding to their surveys is voluntary IE they have no regulatory authority. There are over 6000 hospitals in the US of which Leapfrog's database is approximately 2000 thus around 1 in 3 hospitals have responded to the survey. FYI there are hospitals in some areas that are funded by taxpayers. I highly suspect these institutions would not be allowed to respond per the local legislators. I don't know if TVRH and Leesburg declined to respond or even asked to for that matter. But my short answer is "why would they?". They can't handle the demand they have not alone look for new customers.