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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 .

In partnership with the UCLA Center for SMART Health, the Hearst Health Prize awards $100,000 to data science programs making an impact in healthcare LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Hearst Health and the UCLA Center for SMART Health awarded the 2024 Hearst Health Prize to Mount Sinai Health System. Mount Sinai Health System was declared the winner for a machine learning application called NutriScan AI that facilitates faster identification and treatment of malnutrition in hospitalized patients. The $100,000 award was presented by Gregory Dorn, M.D., president of Hearst Health, during UCLA Health Data Day on June 4. Continue Reading Winner recognized for machine learning application that facilitates faster identification and treatment of malnutrition. Post this Mount Sinai Health System - 2024 Hearst Health Prize Winner Hearst Health Prize in partnership with the UCLA Center for SMART Health (PRNewsfoto/Hearst Health) "Receiving the Hearst Health Prize not only acknowledges our efforts and provides resources to further this work, it creates a platform for us to share our learnings, which can hopefully speed advancements in other areas of care," said David L. Reich, M.D., president of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens. "The development of screening tools like NutriScan AI is just one example of how artificial intelligence is enabling providers to operate more efficiently but the possibilities are endless." Malnutrition is a highly prevalent condition that often goes undiagnosed in hospitalized patients and can significantly impact their path to recovery. The condition is associated with increases in mortality, morbidity, risk of complications and length of hospital stay. While early identification and treatment with nutritional support can prevent or reverse malnutrition, standard screening tools lack accuracy, resulting in missed opportunities for intervention. Mount Sinai Health System started a clinical data science team to develop a more reliable malnutrition screening tool (WATCH VIDEO). Working with an extensive historical cohort of data, the team used over 80 variables to build a model that significantly outperformed the traditional rule-based model used in standard screening tools. Integrating directly within the electronic health record, NutriScan AI offers a precise method to identify patients in whom a diagnosis is likely to be present. This enables registered dieticians to prioritize visits with these patients to confirm a diagnosis and initiate treatment. Since 2019, Mount Sinai Health System has deployed NutriScan AI in six hospitals, resulting in improved registered dietician resource utilization, a sustained increase in the malnutrition diagnosis rate, and a consistent financial return on investment. Mount Sinai Health System is now approximately 2.5 to 3 times more likely to identify malnutrition, contributing to increased reimbursements for the hospital and higher quality ratings on observed-to-expected outcomes. Dorn said, "It's imperative that healthcare leaders keep pace with the myriad of ways AI can be used to advance care. Mount Sinai Health System is a shining example of an organization that has successfully implemented AI to solve a pervasive problem. By spotlighting projects that demonstrate the practical application of AI, we hope the broader healthcare community will be encouraged to consider new ways AI can be integrated into their workflows to positively impact health outcomes." The 2024 Hearst Health Prize competition attracted a diverse set of applications from across the U.S., which were evaluated by UCLA reviewers and an expert judging panel. The Mount Sinai Health System program received the highest combined score across six evaluation criteria, with particularly high rankings for demonstrated health impact and operational and financial sustainability. Alex Bui, Ph.D., UCLA professor and co-director of the UCLA Center for SMART Health stated, "What stood out to me about Mount Sinai Health System's submission was their solid data science approach, ability to demonstrate clear health benefits with outcome data that was generalizable, and their plan to ensure sustainability and scalability for the long haul." About the UCLA Center for SMART Health The UCLA Center for Systematic, Measurable, Actionable, Resilient, and Technology-driven (SMART) Health is a campus-wide collaborative that looks to the integrated transformation of healthcare through emergent data and technologies. A joint effort between the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the Institute for Precision Health (IPH), and the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences that brings together UCLA's experts to shape how digital and data-driven healthcare technologies will help to manage risk, reliability, resilience, uncertainty, and precision in future biomedical research and clinical care. About Hearst Health The mission of Hearst Health is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person's health journey. Care guidance from Hearst Health reaches the majority of people in the U.S. The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase and MHK. Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company Aster Insights. Follow Hearst Health on X @HearstHealth and LinkedIn @Hearst-Health. Contacts Holly Ojalehto, Hearst Health, [email protected] David Sampson, UCLA Health, [email protected] SOURCE Hearst Health

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10, 2024 — When you're looking for a cheap and easy way to get around town, which is safer — a scooter or a bike? A nationwide look at injuries related to both suggests biking may be the safer way to go. UCLA researchers report that scooter injuries nearly tripled across the U.S. between 2016 and 2020, many serious enough to require orthopedic and plastic surgery. The cost of treating those injuries rose five-fold, underscoring their financial strain on the health care system. "Considering the rise in the number of hospitalizations and major operations for scooter-related injuries, it's crucial to elevate safety standards for riders," lead author Nam Yong Cho , a third year medical student at UCLA, said in a news release. "Advocating for improved infrastructure, including enforced speed limits and dedicated lanes, is also vital to minimize risks for vehicles, scooter riders, and pedestrians alike." For the study — published Jan. 9 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons — researchers used a federal government database to compare trends and outcomes for scooter- and bicycle-related injuries. The database did not distinguish between electric and non-electric scooters. In all, nearly 93,000 patients were hospitalized for injuries — about 6,100 from scooters — during the study period. About 27% of the scooter users and 16% of bike riders were under 18. Injuries rose during winter months, and scooter injuries led to more major surgeries than bike injuries (56% versus 48%). These included orthopedic surgery (89% versus 48%); plastic surgery (85% versus 85%); and operations to the head (5% versus 4%). Scooter riders were more likely to have long bone fractures and paralysis than bikers, but both groups had similar risks for traumatic brain injuries, the study found. And those injuries were expensive. The annual cost of treating scooter-related injuries skyrocketed from about $6.6 million in 2016 to $35.5 million in 2020. The cost of bike injuries also rose, from $307 million to $434 million. Researchers pointed out that the database had little information about helmet use, whether multiple riders or substance use was involved. They were unable to account for the role of objects, other vehicles, terrain, speed, time of day and distance traveled. Despite these limitations, researchers called the increases in patient injury, hospitalization and financial burden worrisome. "The progressive exacerbation of injury severity in scooter-related incidents manifested in a substantial proportion of patients necessitating surgical intervention and potentially having long-term [health issues]," they wrote. "Our findings are a call to action for healthcare leaders to empower themselves in promoting scooter-related injury prevention and greater safety in the community." Sources UCLA Health Sciences, news release, Jan. 9, 2023 Disclaimer: Statistical data in medical articles provide general trends and do not pertain to individuals. Individual factors can vary greatly. Always seek personalized medical advice for individual healthcare decisions. Posted January 2024 More news resources FDA Medwatch Drug Alerts Daily MedNews News for Health Professionals New Drug Approvals New Drug Applications Drug Shortages Clinical Trial Results Generic Drug Approvals Subscribe to our newsletter Whatever your topic of interest, subscribe to our newsletters to get the best of Drugs.com in your inbox.