IRVING, Texas--(
BUSINESS WIRE
)--
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.
“Top performers set a precedent in leadership and culture for other health systems and hospitals to follow," said
Byron Jobe
, Vizient president and CEO. "We celebrate each of these organizations for their efforts to deliver cost-effective, high-quality patient care in their communities."
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
Top performers in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort are:
St George Regional Hospital
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island
Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital
Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah
Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center
Memorial Hermann - The Woodlands Hospital
Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire
NewYork-Presbyterian - Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Mayo Clinic Florida
McKay-Dee Hospital Center
NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn
Utah Valley Regional Medical Center
Fairview Southdale Hospital
Endeavor Health - Evanston Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital
AdventHealth Daytona Beach
Top performers in the complex care medical center cohort are:
Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital
Houston Methodist West Houston Hospital
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
AdventHealth Fish Memorial
AdventHealth Palm Coast
Odessa Regional Medical Center
Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital
The Chester County Hospital and Health System
Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton
Corewell Health Grosse Pointe Hospital
AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach
Greenwich Hospital
St. Joseph Medical Center
Prisma Health Baptist Hospital
AdventHealth Celebration
The Medical Center of Southeast Texas
Saddleback Memorial Medical Center-Laguna Hills Campus
UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital
Stanford Tri-Valley
Endeavor Health - Highland Park Hospital
Top performers in the community hospital cohort are:
Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center
Alta View Hospital
Parkview Huntington Hospital
Cedar City Hospital
Mountain West Medical Center
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hecktown Oaks
Parkview Noble Hospital
University of Kansas Health Systems - Great Bend Campus
Garrett Regional Medical Center
Riverton Hospital
Parkview Whitley Hospital
Corewell Health Zeeland Hospital
Fairview Northland Regional Hospital
Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont
Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital
Layton Hospital
Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital
OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Holy Family Memorial
Southeast Georgia Health System-Camden Campus
INTEGRIS Grove Hospital
Sharon Hospital
Baptist Medical Center - Nassau
Fairview Lakes Medical Center
Integris Miami
CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Beeville
The
Rising Star Award
recognizes academic medical centers that made significant improvement in care quality, measured by a rise in at least 20 positions in the annual Vizient Quality and Accountability Study from the prior year and scoring in the top 25. Rising Stars are:
Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center
University of Chicago Medicine
The
Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Award
measures the quality of outpatient care in five domains: access to care, continuum of care, quality, efficiency, and equity. The composite scoring system uses patient-level data from the AAMC-Vizient Clinical Practice Solutions Center
®
, Vizient Access and Throughput data, as well as data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base. Top performers are:
UCLA Health Systems Clinics
NYU Langone Health
University of Utah Health
UCI Health
Rush University Medical Group
The
Vizient Supplier Diversity Excellence Award
recognizes provider clients across
five cohorts
on how they champion inclusion in their supply chain and accelerate economic growth in their local community. Selection criteria is based on contract purchases of minority-, woman-, veteran-, LGBT- and disabled person-owned business enterprises as a percentage of a provider client’s Vizient spend. The top performers are:
Comprehensive academic medical center: University of Maryland Medical System
Large, specialized complex care medical center: Novant Health
Complex care medical center: Memorial Hermann Health System
Pediatric cohort: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The
Environmental Sustainability Excellence
Award
ranks members across
five cohorts
on contributions to human and environmental health through responsible purchasing decisions. Ranking is based on the purchase of products that meet Vizient's Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Standard as well as those who commit to the White House-Health and Human Services Health Sector Climate Pledge. The top performers are:
Comprehensive academic medical center: Stony Brook University Hospital
Large, specialized complex care medical center: Memorial Health
Complex care medical center cohort: Legacy Health
Community hospitals: Buchanan General Hospital
Pediatric: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
About Vizient, Inc.
Vizient, Inc.
, the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company, serves more than 65% of the nation’s acute care providers, including 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 35% of the non-acute market. The Vizient contract portfolio represents $140 billion in annual purchasing volume enabling the delivery of cost-effective, high-value care. With its acquisition of Kaufman Hall in 2024, Vizient expanded its advisory services to help providers achieve financial, strategic, clinical and operational excellence. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at
www.vizientinc.com
.