Hospital "rating" organization The LeapFrog Group and RW Foundation facing multimillion lawsuit for Fraud
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Hospital "rating" organization The LeapFrog Group and RW Foundation facing
multimillion lawsuit for Fraud
Brian Evans, the son of Helen Marie Bousquet (www.helenbousquet.com), says he
intends to file a multimillion dollar lawsuit for fraud against The LeapFrog
Group, a company that rates hospitals and claims to be non-profit. It is funded
in part by the RW Johnson Foundation, but hospitals pay dues as well to LeapFrog
Group. LeapFrog Group then rates them.
"It's the best rating money can buy," says Evans, in his opinion. "They rarely
step foot into the hospital, and rate the hospital based on questionnaires the
hospital itself answers. That same hospital pays LeapFrog dues and receives a
rating based on the hospitals own answers."
Evans says he wants to know the salaries of those involved in the non-profit,
and has filed a complaint with the DC Attorney General's office, who has been
communicating with Evans. Evans has also filed a complaint that seeks to
challenge LeapFrog's 501 (c) status.
The American Hospital Association has a problem with this as well. "I believe
their "rating" contributed to my mother's choice to go there. Unfortunately for
my mother, she didn't realize how worthless a rating it is. Steward Health Care
System touts this rating as if it means jack. In my opinion, it does not."
Evans contacted LeapFrog Group after his mother died at a hospital they rated on
October 5th, 2012, The Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, Massachusetts (a Steward
Health Care System hospital).
"I wrote LeapFrog's CEO, Leah Binder. She then wrote me a letter on December
3rd, then telephoned me to invite me to Maryland to meet with her. She then
states in an email to me "your mother would want us to talk." I then go public
(see: http://www.submitpressrelease123.com/leapfrog-group-now-supports-son-of-
holy-family-hospital-patient-helen-bousquet_2905.html) with the letter from Leah
Binder, who is LeapFrog's CEO, but then she stopped responding to me when she
realized I'd published her letter to me on the internet as part of a press
release."
Eleven days later, they (LeapFrog Group) provide a new rating that is posted on
the Holy Family Hospital. (See: http://www.steward.org/news/Holy-Family/Holy-
Family-Hospital-Awarded-an-A-for-Patient-Safety-by-Hospital-Safety-Score). This
despite their letter stating the ratings were from 2011 in their original letter
to Evans. "Between writing me that letter, and December 14th, they provided a
new hospital-self-answered driven rating to the hospital without ever walking
into the hospital between the time she wrote me the letter, and eleven days
later when she gave them a "new rating." Just what do you think happened between
the time I went public with the letter she wrote me, and her telling me on the
phone "I think you should go after them," and her sudden and "new rating" just
11 days later,
says Evans.
On December 23rd, just 9 days later, nurses protest the very same hospital for
lack of staffing. (See:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/north/2012/12/23/nurses-say-staffing-
too-low-holy-family-hospital-methuen/qY3ZU5GpHVzJVtqXCvY9xL/story.html)."
So tell me, how do you get an "A" rating when the hospital's own nurses are
protesting the hospital that they don't have enough nurses to treat the
patient's just days after you've given the hospital that "A" rating?
The American Hospital Association agrees there's a problem, as they've issued
various concerns about LeapFrog Group, as has other organizations (see
www.leahbinder.com). "The Attorney General's office in Washington, DC has been
in touch with me over my allegations. I have been providing them with
information over the last several weeks that they have requested. I also filed a
complaint with the IRS to challenge LeapFrog's 501(c) status. In my opinion,
they are nothing more than "Questionnaire Printers," who found a way to make
"caring" profitable. It's just utter nonsense, and the IRS gives them 501(c)
status to be nothing more than a printer with a website that markets interest in
hospital care."
Evans has also been in discussions with the FBI, and continues to provide them
with information that they have requested he continue to forward them.
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Datum: 05.03.2013 - 21:45 Uhr
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