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www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today Healthcare Awards 2019 62 USA FIRM PROFILE Founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization driving a movement for giant leaps forward in the quality and safety of American health care. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey collects and transparently reports hospital performance, empowering purchasers to find the highest-value care and giving consumers the lifesaving information they need to make informed decisions. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, Leapfrog’s other main initiative, assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety, helping consumers protect themselves and their families from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. Building a movement for transparency. In less than 20 years, The Leapfrog Group has grown exponentially—now reporting data on almost 2,000 hospitals, with regional partnerships in 36 states. We kick-started a national campaign to reduce early elective deliveries, launched a pay-for-performance program, and designed the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade to empower consumers to make better choices. Health care is big business. Employers and other purchasers spend billions of dollars on health care every year. But nearly one-third of health care spending is wasteful—think unnecessary procedures, administrative costs, medical errors, and even fraud. For many years, purchasers have struggled to provide high- quality health care to their employees, simply because they didn’t know which providers were safe, or had the best patient outcomes. In no other industry do we encounter this lack of transparency and accountability. Our Mission: To trigger giant leaps forward in the safety, quality and affordability of U.S. health care by using transparency to support informed health care decisions and promote high-value care. Our Vision: We envision a future where purchasers will tie health care investment to excellence and educate their employees on choosing the best care. Health plans will support purchasers in their efforts to reward high performance and empower employees. Consumers will fight for the best care for themselves and their families. Providers will be courageous in championing transparency and leading groundbreaking improvements. By living the vision, all of us will work to give the next generation the safest, highest-quality health care system in the world. LEAH BINDER President and CEO of The Leapfrog Group ABOUT LEAH BINDER 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. She is a regular contributor to Forbes. com and other top tier publications. 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. She has served on numerous national boards and councils, including the Institute of Medicine Collaboration on Patient Engagement, the Health Care Financial Management Association Leadership Advisory Committee, PCORI Health Systems Advisory Panel, AARP’s Champions for Nursing Strategic Advisory Council, the National Priorities Partnership Board. Prior to her position at The Leapfrog Group, Ms. Binder spent eight years as vice president at Franklin Community Health Network, an award-winning rural hospital network in Farmington, Maine. She previously worked as a senior policy advisor for the Office of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in New York City and started her career at the National League for Nursing, where she handled policy and communications for more than 6 years. Ms. Binder 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. She lives in Maryland with her husband, Sam, and two children, Henry and Fanya.