About US News
What is US News and World Report?
U.S. News & World Report is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis. The company was launched in 1948 as the merger of domestic-focused weekly newspaper U.S. News and international-focused weekly magazine World Report.
Outcome associated with prevention of skin injuries/wounds
This national nonprofit organization was founded in 2000 to improve patient safety, quality, and transparency in health care.
What is The Leapfrog Group
Leapfrog evaluates whether hospitals follow evidence-based practices to prevent complications from this high-risk surgical condition, including timely antibiotics and standardized protocols.
What is the prevention of surgical site infections?
This national children’s hospital network focuses on eliminating serious harm and hospital-acquired conditions through collaboration and data transparency.
What is Solutions for Patient Safety?
What category/survey does JDCH participate in?
Best Children's Hospitals
Outcome associated with prevention of infections in ICUs
CLABSI
Hospitals voluntarily submit detailed safety and quality data to Leapfrog through this annual survey, which helps drive transparency for patients and employers.
What is the Leapfrog Hospital Survey?
Leapfrog incorporates results from this national patient survey that asks about communication, responsiveness, and overall hospital experience.
What is HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems)?
SPS emphasizes this proactive practice where teams pause to identify risks and anticipate potential harm before it occurs.
What is a Proactive Safety Huddle?
Name one subcategories associated with the BCH main category?
Medical/Surgical Specialities:
Cancer
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Cardiology
Neonatology
Nephrology
Neurology/Neurosurgery
Orthopedics
Pulmonology
Urology
Behavioral Health
Outcomes associated with surgical procedures
Survival Rates
Readmission Rates
Surgical Complications
Surgical Site Infections
Hospitals that receive this top designation from Leapfrog are recognized as the safest children’s hospitals in the nation.
What is the Top Children's Hospital designation?
Leapfrog strongly emphasizes this type of computerized system that helps prevent medication errors by alerting providers to dosing and interaction risks.
What is Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)?
SPS emphasizes standardizing evidence-based practices for preventing harm, often referred to as these structured sets of safety interventions.
What are safety bundles?
Name 1 of the 6 subcategories JDCH ranked in the Top 50
Neonatology
Nephrology
Orthopedics
Pulmonology
Urology
Behavioral Health
Outcome associated with number of days a patient remains in the hospital to recover, calculated from the day of surgery until discharge
Median postoperative length of stay
Employers and purchasers of health care originally created Leapfrog to reduce this major issue in U.S. hospitals.
What are preventable medical errors?
Over 200,000 deaths from preventable errors each year in the US!
Leapfrog measures whether hospitals use protocols to minimize exposure during this common diagnostic test that can deliver high radiation doses.
What is CT scan radiation dosing safety?
In SPS, these structured conversations occur after events or near misses to understand what happened and improve systems.
What are Learning Reviews? Safety Event Reviews, RCAs, ACAs
In addition to outcomes, US News evaluates whether hospitals have advanced technologies such as ECMO, transplant capability, and specialized pediatric ICUs under this scoring domain.
What is Hospital Structure? And Hospital Processes
US News evaluates this workforce factor, recognizing that stronger ratios and specialized pediatric training improve outcomes.
What is Nurse Staffing?
Although the award is national recognition, achieving Top Children’s Hospital status ultimately reflects consistent excellence in this daily location of care.
What are bedside operations? Bedside skills, error prevention, clear communication, and high reliability
Preventing pressure injuries, medication errors, infections, and surgical complications most directly improves this overall Leapfrog scoring domain.
What are patient safety outcomes? Preventable injuries
SPS promotes this high reliability mindset that means remaining constantly alert to potential safety threats, even when things appear to be going well.
What is a preoccupation with failure?