After his study was published, in 1999, he met with a coalition of large employers known as the Leapfrog Group.
The company works with over 93 percent of the best hospitals in the country, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report and the Leapfrog Group.
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The Leapfrog Group, a coalition of big corporate health-care purchasers, in 2009 began asking hospitals around the nation to report their rate of early term induced births that weren't medically necessary.
Last year, my organization, The Leapfrog Group, initiated one such effort, the Hospital Safety Score, a letter grade rating the safety of 2600 hospitals, which Dr. Jha advises us on.
Moving forward, I would urge the Governor to look at some of the work done by the South Carolina Business Coalition on Health that partners with The Leapfrog Group to improve the quality and transparency of hospital care.
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The nonprofit safety group Leapfrog collects infection rates, for example.
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Investors included Citi Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Leapfrog Ventures, Seraph Group, and Startup Capital Ventures.
Gallaher bought Russian cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat in 2000, and the acquisition would leapfrog Japan Tobacco over Altria Group 's Philip Morris into the No. 1 spot in the Russian market, with a 34% market share .
Gallaher bought Russian cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat in 2000, and the acquisition would leapfrog Japan Tobacco over Altria Group 's (nyse: MO - news - people ) Philip Morris into the No. 1 spot in the Russian market, with a 34% market share .
Campbell was head of a health care task force of the Business Roundtable, an elite group of corporate leaders that sponsored Leapfrog.
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