Leah Binder

The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization that was founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The American company's main initiative is the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety. This helps consumers protect themselves and their families from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey and new Leapfrog Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Survey collect and transparently report hospital and ASC performance, empowering purchasers to find the highest-value care and giving consumers the lifesaving information they need to make informed decisions. The CEO is Leah Binder.

Knowledge to Practice, Inc. provides clinical education services. It specializes in deploy learning techniques using digital technology to help clinical leaders design and deliver a personalized curriculum that measurably improves clinical judgment, critical thinking, and patient care. The firm delivers personalized, adaptive lifelong learning solutions. Its proprietary learning platform delivers personalized, mastery-based education and point of care tools both synchronous and asynchronous with care. The company was founded by Mary Ellen Beliveau and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Part of The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a consensus-driven organization that works to improve the quality of American healthcare. The company is based in Washington. NQF's expert committee members represent diverse interests from every healthcare sector, and measures are endorsed only after thoughtful discussion and debate from across the healthcare community. NQF sets national priorities for performance improvement, endorses consensus standards for measuring and reporting performance, and provides education and outreach. Dana Gelb Safran has been the CEO of the American company since 2021. The National Quality Forum was acquired by The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations on August 16, 2023.