September 20, 2024- Vizient, Inc. announced top performers in clinical quality, supplier diversity and environmental sustainability excellence. The awards recognize the achievements of participating hospitals and health systems in patient care quality and supply chain excellence and were announced at Vizient Connections Summit Sept. 17 in Las Vegas.
The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes participating healthcare organizations in four cohorts through the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study, which measures performance on the quality of patient care in six domains: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity. The study factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance data from the HCAHPS survey and the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network.
Top performers in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort are:
- NYU Langone Health
- Rush University Medical Center
- UC Irvine Medical Center
- Houston Methodist Hospital
- Intermountain Medical Center
- Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center
- UCSF Medical Center
- Froedtert Health – Froedtert Hospital
- UC San Diego Health
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- Mayo Clinic Rochester
- The University of Kansas Hospital
- Keck Hospital of USC
- University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics