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Gary Kaplan, chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle, discusses how his hospital has made it onto the Leapfrog Group's top hospitals list in each of the 10 years that the group has ranked hospitals. Virginia Mason and the University of Maryland Medical Center are the only two hospitals to earn the distinction in all 10 years. Kaplan was interviewed on Nov. 30 at the Leapfrog Group's anniversary gala by Jessica Zigmond, Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief.

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